Profusely branched mat-forming perennial herb, main branches prostrate, rooting, ultimate branchlets very short, up to 30 mm long, white-felted, leafy. Leaves mostly 10-25 x 3-4 mm, spathulate, subacute, much narrowed below to a petiole-like base, then expanded, half-clasping, both surfaces enveloped in thick, silky-woolly white tomentum. Heads c. 5 x 3 mm, solitary on nude white-woolly peduncles up to 20 mm long. Involucral bracts in 4 series, subequal, base of whole involucre white-felted, only tips free, oblong, obtuse, opaque white. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers c. 25-31, 9-12 ('female'), 16-19 ('bisexual'), in the proportion 1:1.5-2. Achenes 0.75 mm long with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles with scabrid tips, monomorphic.
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