Probably perennial, taproot becoming thick (4 mm diam.) and woody, stems many, densely tufted from the crown, c. 20—60 mm long, simple or subsimple, grey-woolly, leafy. Leaves mostly 4—10 x 1—4 mm, elliptic-spathulate, apex subacute, someÂtimes folded lengthwise and recurved, base narrowed, half-clasping, margins somewhat undulate, both surfaces thickly white-woolly. Heads heterogamous or rarely homogamous, c. 3,5—4 x 2—2,5 mm, campanulate, few to many crowded in terminal glomerules 5 — 10 mm across, surrounded by leaves webbed to the outer involucral bracts. Involucral bracts in 3—4 series, subequal, equalling flowers, not radiating, tips of outer obtuse, inner abruptly acute and apiculate, opaque, white, outer at least tinged golden-brown. Receptacle very shortly honeycombed. Flowers 14-38, (0-) 1-3 ("female"), 14-36.("bisexual"), yellow, tipped pink. Achenes 0,75 mm, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips scabrid, bases nude, not cohering. Fortasse perennis, radice palari incras-sata (4 mm diam.) et lignosa; caules e caudice multi dense caespitosi c. 20—60 mm longi, simplices vel subsimplices, griseo-lanati, foliati. Folia plerumque 4—10 X 1—4 mm, elliptico-spatulata, apice subacuto, interdum longitudinaliter plicata et recurva-ta, basi angustata semi-amplectente, margi-nibus paulo undulatis, utrinque dense albo-lanata. Capitula heterogama vel raro homo-gama, c. 3,5—4 x 2—2,5 mm, campanulata, pauca vel multa in glomerulos terminales condensata, foliis ad bracteas involucralgs exteriores lana contextis circumcincta. Brac-teae involucrales 3—4- seriatae, subaequales, flores aequantes, non radiantes, apicibus exteriorum obtusis interiorum abrupte acutis et apiculatis, opacae, albae, saltern exteriores aureo-brunneo-tinctae. Receptaculum bre-vissime favosum. Flores 14—38, (0—) 1—3 9, 14—36 0, flavi roseo-apiculati. Achenia 0,75 mm longa, glabra. Pappi setae multae, corollam aequantes, apicibus scabris, basi-bus non cohaerentibus.