Perennials, 1–2 cm (usually ± pulvinate). Stems ± erect; internodes 0.1–1(–5+) mm, ± villous. Leaves basal and cauline, ± spatulate, 6–12(–15+) × 1–3+ mm, little, if at all, fleshy or notably thickened, faces of earliest leaves glabrous or glabrate, of later leaves ± villous to pilosulous. Heads ± sessile or at ends of leafy stems. Involucres ± hemispheric, (12–)16–30+ mm diam. Phyllaries 45–60+ in 5+ series, the longer narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 9–11 mm (l/w = 7–9), apices attenuate, abaxial faces ± pilose. Ray florets 21–65+; corollas white adaxially, laminae 8–12(–16+) mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially. Disc florets 100–150+; corollas 4–6+ mm. Cypselae 3–4.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips entire; pappi readily falling, of 25–30 subulate to setiform scales 5–8 mm (± connate basally).
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