Main stems slender, much-branched, prostrate and rooting; branchlets close-set, forming flat patches up to 5 dm. or more diam. Lvs closely imbricate, membr. towards 3-nerved base, subcoriac. towards rounded to retuse and apiculate apex, ± 2 × 1 mm., narrowly obovate-spathulate, ± inflexed; both surfaces ± glab. in basal part; dorsal surface clad in appressed white to buff, occ. tinged pale yellow, tomentum in apical portion; ventral surface with woolly hairs towards apex. Capitula ± 5-7 mm. diam. Florets c. 15, ± narrow-funnelform. Outer phyll. subfoliaceous; inner up to 5 mm. long, linear, obtuse, not radiate, ± stramineous, margins scarious. Achenes minutely pubescent to nearly glab., us. < 1mm. long; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long, very slender, not or hardly thickened at tips; papillae obscure, claviform.
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