Dwarf, cushion-forming shrublet, with many-headed caudex with a woolly crown and covered with leaf rosettes, shortly exserted and covered with accumulating dry leaf remains. Leaves rosulate, oblanceolate, 10-60 x (2-)6-15 mm, apiculate, leathery and striate-reticulate, margins slightly thickened and cartilaginous, sparsely to densely spinulate with patent or retrorse teeth, woolly in axils. Flowerheads (1)2-5 on elongated, minutely scaly peduncles up to 300 mm long, radiate, yellow; involucre campanulate, ± 5 mm diam., bracts 5-8, dark tipped, ± 5 x 1-1.5 mm. Cypselas 2-3 mm long, pubescent; pappus ± 2 mm long.
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