Mat-forming herb, probably perennial, stems filiform, prostrate, rooting, young parts loosely white woolly, distantly leafy. Leaves mostly 8-16 x 3-6 mm, about half the length petiolar, ovate or ovate-elliptic, apex acute, mucronate, base abruptly narrowed to the petiolar portion, both surfaces thinly white-woolly. Heads homogamous, campanulate, c. 6 x 3.5 mm, solitary or up to 6 on short peduncles corymbosely arranged at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in c. 5 series, outermost short, inner subequal, exceeding flowers, backs woolly, tips elliptic, obtuse, opaque milk-white, radiating. Receptacle shallowly tubercled. Flowers 18-21. Achenes not seen, ovaries hairy. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, tips subplumose with clavate hairs, shaft barbellate, bases cohering by patent cilia.
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Mat-forming, perennial herb, rooting at nodes. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate to ovate-elliptic, white-woolly. Flowerheads discoid, up to 6 mm long, solitary or few together, arranged corymbosely on short peduncles at branch tips; inner involucral bracts with white, elliptic, obtuse tips. Pappus of bristles, with barbellate shaft and subplumose tips.
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