Low, erect, spreading subshrub, up to 0.6 m high, often prostrate over rock sheets or hanging down cliff faces; branches sericeous, soon glabrous, old ones rough with leaf scars, often rooting, twigs closely leafy. Leaves opposite, sericeous, silvery, hairs appressed, primary leaves linear or 2-or 3-forked at tips, up to 10 x 1.5 mm, appearing fascicled from closely leafy axillary shoots. Capitula solitary, terminal, shortly pedunculate, radiate. Involucre campanulate, up to 7 x 9 mm when pressed, villous. Involucral bracts in 3 rows, imbricate; outer narrowly ovate, 2.5-5.5 x 0.5 mm; middle obtuse, 5.5-6.0 x 1.1 mm, tips membranous; inner oblong, 6.5-7.0 x 1.1 mm, discolorous, membranous. Receptacle epaleate or with a few marginal paleae. Ray florets female, 3-toothed, white tinged pink at base or sometimes at back; corolla limb 5-7 mm long; corolla tube 1.8 long. Style up to 2.2 mm long, branched, style branches 0.8 mm long, with stigmatic areas along edges. Ovary 1.2 mm long, slightly striate. Disc florets bisexual, 5-lobed, yellow; lobes ovate, 0.1 mm long; corolla limb 2 mm long; corolla tube 1 mm long. Anthers minutely caudate, apical appendage elongated, obtuse, filaments thickened. Style up to 2.8 mm long, slightly branched, style branches 0.2 mm long with stigmatic areas along edges and papillate appendages. Ovary 1.1 mm long. Cypsela narrowly cylindric, 2 mm long, closely ribbed, minutely papillose especially on ribs, crowned with thickened apical rim. Pappus absent.
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Low spreading shrub, often prostrate, stems 0.17-0.60 m long. Leaves opposite, linear or 2-to 3-forked, silky silvery, with hairs appressed. Capitula radiate, solitary, terminal, shortly pedunculate; involucral bracts imbricate, villous, without oil glands on inner surfaces. Receptacle epaleate or with a few marginal paleae. Ray florets white sometimes tinged pink. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. Pappus absent. Cypselae narrowly cylindric, closely ribbed, crowned with a thickened rim.
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