Stems prostrate, creeping and rooting, branchlets erect or ascending, ± close-set. Lvs closely imbricate, spreading to recurved at tips, ± 3-5 × 2 mm., obovate-spathulate to obovate-cuneate, broadly rounded to subtruncate at apex; basal portion glab., apical densely clad in soft white to pale buff or occ. yellowish green appressed tomentum. Capitula 4-7 mm. diam.; inner phyll. ± 4-6 mm. long, membr., linear-oblong, with expanded white radiate tips. Florets 15-25, 3-4 mm. long, c. half ♀. Achenes < 1mm. long, puberulous; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long, subflexuous, slightly thickened at tips, papillae claviform. Stylopodium distinct.
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