Much-branched cushion-forming dwarf shrub, very compact, rounded in outline, old main stem woody, bare, gnarled, main branches prostrate, rooting, producing innumerable tightly congested, densely leafy erect branchlets. Leaves closely imbricate, rosulate when viewed from above, only the thick, broadly ovate or suborbicular blade visible, ±4-6 x 4-6 mm, appressed grey silky-woolly, the oblong basal part ±6 x 3 mm, membranous, glabrous above, thinly villous below, stem-clasping. Heads homogamous, campanulate, 5-7 mm long, double that across the fully radiating bracts, sessile, solitary at the tips of the branchlets. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, graded, loosely imbricate, exceeding the flowers, obtuse to acute, glossy, lemon-yellow, pale lemon or whitish. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 41-64, yellow. Achenes 1.5 mm, ellipsoid, with sparse rather long duplex hairs, sometimes few or wanting, not mucilaginous when wet. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabridulous, bases not cohering by patent cilia, but some fusion in bundles.
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