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Profusely branched mat-forming peren­nial herb, main branches prostrate, root­ing, soon nude, ultimate branchlets elong­ating at flowering, ascending, c. 40-200 mm long, greyish-white woolly, closely leafy. Leaves up to 8 (—20) x 4 mm, obovate or oblong-obovate, narrowed to the base and half-clasping, apex obtuse, apicu-late, both surfaces glandular-punctate and closely greyish-white woolly, or without wool and with stalked glands. Heads heterogamous, sub-cylindric, c. 3 x 3 mm, many felted together at the base in a congested, rounded, terminal corymbose cluster up to 18 mm across. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, graded, imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, not radiating, tawny-yellow, tipped golden-brown. Receptacle smooth or shortly honeycombed. Flowers c. 35-55, 8-15 ("female"), 22-40 ("bisexual"), yellow. Achenes 0,75 mm, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, delicate, tips barbellate, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia. Fig. 28:1.