A densely branched, up to c. 0.3 m high, rounded shrublet. Stems ascending-erect, glabrous, leafy, becoming nude and marked with leaf-scars. Leaves alternate or approaching opposite, spreading-squarrose, ± flat, mid-ribbed, elliptic-obovate, 3.5-5 mm long, 1.2-2.5 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose marginally, indistinctly glandular-punctate, acute, with somewhat hooked apex. Capitula solitary or paired, terminal. Peduncles up to 4 mm long. Involucre narrowly urceolate-cylindrical, 1.5-3 mm wide. Involucral bracts 20-35, outer ovate, inner gradually longer and oblong, innermost narrowly oblong with a spreading apical limb, up to 5.5 mm long, up to 1.5 mm wide, innermost dorsally gland-dotted, obtuse-rounded. Receptacle convex, paleate. Paleae somewhat canaliculate, linear or narrowly spatulate, 4.5-6 mm long, apically 0.2-0.5 mm wide, dorsally gland-dotted, acute. Ray-florets 4-1. Tube cylindrical, 2.2-2.8 mm long, glandular. Lamina elliptic, 2.8-3.7 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, 4-veined. Style 3.2-3.8 mm long; style-branches 1-1.5 mm long. Achenes as in disc-florets. Disc-florets 10-18, perfect. Corolla 3.8-4.8 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide. Tube cylindrical, glandular. Limb narrowly cyathiform; corolla lobes 0.5-0.8 mm long, dorsally gland-dotted. Style 3.5-4.5 mm long; style-branches 0.7-1 mm long, apically penicillate and truncate; stylopodium distinct. Anthers 1.9-2.3 mm long; tails c. 1/4 of the length of the anther. Achenes almost terete, narrowly oblong, 1.8-2.5 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, ± glandular; pappus crownlike, of ± connate scales, up to 1 mm long.
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Much-branched, cushion-forming shrub, up to 0.25 m tall. Leaves spreading, crowded in upper parts, spathulate-obovate, 4-5 mm long, gland-dotted and sticky, margin ± shortly pubescent, tip shortly mucronate. Flowerheads terminal, 1(2), radiate, yellow, ± 5 mm diam., receptacle paleate, florets glandular hairy around middle.
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