Profusely branched mat-forming perennial herb, main branches prostrate, rooting, soon nude, ultimate branchlets elongating at flowering, ascending, ±40-200 mm long, greyish-white woolly, closely leafy. Leaves up to 8(-20) x 4 mm, obovate or oblong-obovate, narrowed to the base and half-clasping, apex obtuse, apiculate, both surfaces glandular-punctate and closely greyish-white woolly, or without wool and with stalked glands. Heads heterogamous, subcylindric, ±3 x 3 mm, many felted together at the base in a congested, rounded, terminal corymbose cluster up to 18 mm across. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, graded, imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, not radiating, tawny-yellow, tipped golden-brown. Receptacle smooth or shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±35-55, 8-15 female, 22-40 homogamous, yellow. Achenes 0.75 mm, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, delicate, tips barbellate, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.
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Main branches prostrate, rooting, soon nude, ultimate branchlets ascending, 40-200 mm long, greyish white-woolly, closely leafy. Leaves up to 20 x 4 mm, obovate or oblong-obovate, base ± clasping, both sides glandular-punctate and closely greyish white-woolly, or without wool and with stalked glands. Capitula subcylindric, 3 x 3 mm, felted together in dense, rounded, terminal clusters up to 18 mm in diam.; involucral bracts in 4 series, tawny-yellow, tipped golden-brown. Receptacle smooth or ± honeycombed. Flowers 35-55, yellow. Flowering time Oct.-Dec. Pappus of bristles with barbellate apex, bases cohering lightly.
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