Stock rather stout, multicipital, emitting short stolons or rhizomes with scalelike lvs; plant forming matted patches. Lvs rosulate, at nodes, 1-1∙5 cm. × 1-1∙5 mm., narrow-linear, obtuse, spreading to recurved, coriac. Peduncles up to 1∙5 cm. long in fr., with 1-2 short linear bracts or nude. Capitula up to 5 mm. diam.; phyll. 6-8, c. 2 mm. long, broad-oblong, obtuse, veins often obscure, margins scarious. Florets 6-8, not strongly dimorphic; achenes c. 2 mm. long, fusiform to obovoid, glab., obscurely ribbed to smooth.

2n = 18

Low, creeping plants, forming loose to dense mats. Leaves linear, erectopatent, 7-13 × 1.0-1.3 mm; apex obtuse; margins narrowly scariose, hairy at the base. Capitula subsessile; peduncle elongated up to 1 cm in fruit; bracts 1-2, leaf-like. Phyllaries 7-10, oblong, obtuse, with 3 inconspicuous translucent ducts, 2.0-2.5 mm long. Outer florets 5-7, cyathiform, (5-) 4-lobed, white or tube white and lobes purple, 1.3-2.0 mm long; vascular tissue central. Central florets 4-5, functionally male, coloured as outer florets but soon turning brown, 1.8-2.5 mm long; vascular tissue central; anthers 1.1-1.2 mm long. Cypsela obovoid, ± terete, ribbed, glabrous, c. 1.6 mm long; apex indistinctly rimmed.