Dwarf shrub, mat-forming; main stems procumbent, branching; flowering stems up to 150 mm high, terminal, often solitary, erect, loosely greyish white-woolly, leafy. Leaves crowded in many basal rosettes; blade of basal leaves lingulate (obovate), up to ± 40 x 10 mm, leathery, glandular-punctate, glabrous to glandular-pubescent, margins white-woolly; blade of stem leaves similar but smaller upwards. Heads disciform, campanulate, ± 15-20 x ± 40 mm, solitary. Involucral bracts in ± 10 series, graded, loosely imbricate, much exceeding florets, radiating, dull white, crimson blotch near base inside, tips acute, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, scarcely honeycombed. Flowers: female and disc florets 195-259, 18-29 female; corolla of disc florets narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow?; Dec.-Feb. Fruit with cypsela hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases free.
Mat-forming, dwarf shrub, main stems prostrate, branching, with many-crowded leaf rosettes, flowering stems terminal, often solitary, erect, up to ± 150 mm high, loosely greyish white-woolly, leafy. Leaves: radical leaves lingulate, up to ± 40 mm long, leathery, glandular-punctuate, glabrous to glandular-pubescent, margins white-woolly; cauline leaves similar but smaller upwards. Capitula heterogamous, campanulate, ± 15-20 mm long, double that in diam., solitary; involucral bracts in ± 10 series, graded, white, crimson blotch near base inside. Flowers 195-259. Flowering time Dec.-Feb. Pappus of many bristles, bases free. Cypselae 1.25 mm long, cylindric, hairy.