Descripcion

Perennial herbs, caespitose, stems prostrate, 10–25 cm, branched, densely leafy at base and more loosely in upper part, whitish-tomentose. Leaves 15–25 × 1.5–4(–5) mm, obovate to linear-obovate, attenuate or slightly attenuate at base, apex acute and shortly acuminate, mucronate; concolorous, whitish-tomentose on both surfaces; trichomes long, eglandular, eseptate, filiform from base to tip. Capitula many, in headlike clusters, subtended by linear leaves, sometimes with 1(or 2) clusters at base. Involucre narrowly campanu late, 3.5–4 × ca. 2 mm. Phyllaries 14 to 20, 4-seriate, lamina light brown at apex; outer phyllaries 2.1–3.5 × 0.9–1.2 mm, ovate, apex subobtuse to acute, lanugi nose at base; inner phyllaries 3.4–4 × 0.5–1 mm, oblong- lanceolate, apex subobtuse, glabrous. Pistillate florets 20 to 40, corolla ca. 3 mm. Bisexual florets 2 to 3, corolla ca. 3.2 mm, 5-lobed, anthers 5. Achenes ca. 0.5 mm, pilose, with short, globose duplex trichomes. Pappus bristles ca. 3.3 mm.