Tufted scapiform herb to 10 cm high, with brownish hairs on scape and leaf-margins; adventitious roots mostly 0.3–0.5 mm diam. Leaves suberect, narrowly spathulate or very narrowly elliptic, 10–40 mm long, ±flat or convex abaxially, slightly dilated at base, entire, obtuse to acute, mucronate. Capitula 2–10 per stem; peduncle to c. 15 mm long at maturity, bracteolate; involucre c. 3.0–3.5 mm long; bracts 8–12 (–14), ±oblong, finally erect; stereome flat, fleshy, with 3 longitudinal ducts. Florets: female florets 8–17; male florets 3–11; corolla 1–2 mm long; limb 4 (or 5)-lobed, white. Achenes obovoid, 1.7–2.2 mm long, slightly to markedly 4-ribbed, brown, glabrous.
Grows in moist low alpine grasslands, amongst cushionplants, sometimes in the shelter of low shrubs and in rock crevices, at altitudes over 950 m.
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