Herbs, erect to spreading or prostrate, not scapose, 0.08-0.2 × 0.1-0.25 dm, glabrous, usually grayish. Stems spreading, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems erect to slightly spreading or prostrate, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.4-0.8 dm, glabrous. Leaves basal, 1 per node; petiole 0.3-1(-2.5) cm, tomentose; blade round-ovate, 0.3-0.5(-1) × 0.3-0.5(-1) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, 0.5-1.5 × 1-2 cm; branches dichotomous, glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, 1-2 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 2-2.5 × 2-2.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5-0.8 mm. Flowers 2-3 mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, monomorphic, oblong; stamens exserted, 2.5-3 mm; filaments sparsely pubescent proximally. Achenes light brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous.
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