Mat-forming perennial herb, main stems branching, prostrate, rooting, producing numerous congested leaf rosettes, flowering stems terminal, 10-200 mm long, simple, distantly leafy upwards. Leaves 30-60 x 2-7 mm, generally narrowly lanceolate, rarely linear, often conduplicate and slightly falcate, apex acute, base broad, clasping, indumentum smooth, sericeous, stripping like tissue-paper, upper surface green drying grey, lower silvery white. Heads heterogamous, cylindric, c. 4 x 3 mm, many webbed together in a congested terminal cluster 15-20 mm across. Involucral bracts in c. 3 series, subequal, loosely imbricate, equalling the flowers, translucent, outer brownish, all tipped bright canary-yellow, obtuse, not radiating. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers c. 10-17, 2-4 'female', 7-14 'female', yellow. Achenes 0.75 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles 3-5, tips shortly plumose, bright yellow, shaft nude, bases not cohering.
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