Main stems slender, sparingly hairy, creeping and rooting; branches ascending. Lvs 4-5 cm. long, 11-13-foliolate. Stipules broad-ovate, c. 5 mm. long, entire or deeply 2-4-fid. Lflts ashy glaucescent on both surfaces, clad in dense appressed hairs above, pilose on veins below, teeth not penicillate. Upper lflts subsessile, up to 9 mm. long, dentate, teeth obtuse; terminal lflt with short petiolule. Scape c. 11 cm. long in flowering state. Heads 5-6 mm. diam. in flowering state. Cupules clad in spreading hairs. Sepals broad-lanceolate, obtuse, sparingly hairy below. Stamens 2, anthers purple. Stigma purple, plumose.
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