Subshrubs, spreading and matted, not scapose, 0.5-1.5 × 0.8-2.5(-3) dm, mostly floccose or glabrous, greenish. Stems spreading, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 4 height of plant; caudex stems absent or compact; aerial flowering stems spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.03-0.1 dm, floccose to thinly tomentose. Leaves cauline, 1 per node or fasciculate; petiole 0.1-0.15(-0.2) cm, tomentose; blade linear, 0.6-1 × (0.08-)0.1-0.2 cm, densely white-tomentose adaxially, glabrous and green adaxially, margins revolute. Inflorescences umbellate-cymose to cymose, compact, 0.5-1 × 0.5-2 cm; branches usually dichtomous proximally, otherwise with secondaries suppressed, floccose or glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, linear, 0.5-1.5 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, 1.5-3(-3.5) × 1-2 mm, floccose; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.6 mm. Flowers 2-3(-3.5) mm; perianth white to pink or rose, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/ 4, dimorphic, those of outer whorl obovate, 1.7-2 mm wide, those of inner whorl oblanceolate, 0.8-1 mm wide; stamens slightly exserted, 2-3 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous except for papillate beak.
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