Much-branched compact or straggling subshrub up to c. 300 mm tall, branchlets thinly white-felted, closely leafy to summit. Leaves c. 3-15 x 1-1,5 mm, not diminÂishing upwards, linear, rigid, spreading, margins revolute, tip uncinate, base shortly decurrent, upper surface soon glabrous, lower white-woolly. Heads heterogamous or very rarely homogamous, campanulate, c. 5 x 5 mm, few to several in compact terminal corymbs. Involucral bracts in 6—8 series, graded, imbricate, inner slightly exceeding flowers, tips very obtuse, crisped, opaque creamy-white or outer sometimes rosy, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils exceeding ovaries. Flowers 17—60, (0—) 2—14 ("female"), 10—49 ("bisexual"). Achenes c. 1 mm long, glabrous or with myxogenie duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, tips barbellate, bases cohering by patent cilia.
