Well-branched mat-forming perennial herb, branches slender, prostrate, older parts nude or leafy, rooting, new shoots closely silvery sericeous, leafy, often much abbreviated and then leaves more or less rosetted. Leaves up to 20 x 4 mm, lanceolate-elliptic, slightly falcate, apex acute, base slightly narrowed, clasping, both surfaces with silvery grey silky 'tissue-paper' indumentum. Heads homogamous, turbinate-campanulate, ±5 mm long, up to ±10 in a tight cluster on remotely leafy peduncles up to ±60 mm long terminating the branchlets, peduncle, leaves, base of compound inflorescence and base of individual heads all enveloped in silvery 'tissue-paper' indumentum. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, scarcely imbricate, outer larger than inner, spathulate, up to 6 x 3 mm, inner shorter and narrower, all petaloid, limb milk-white. Receptacle smooth. Flowers ±17-20, yellow. Achenes 1 mm long, with elongated duplex hairs. Pappus bristles 5 or 6, equalling the corolla, tips subplumose, bases not cohering.
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