Stock rather stout, multicipital, emitting short stolons densely clad in imbricate lvs, branches up to 3 cm. long; plant forming mosslike patches. Lvs close-set along branches, 6-10 × 1-2 mm., coriac., erect to patent, curved, narrowly linear to linear-oblong to subulate-oblong, subacute, ciliolate near sheathing base; midrib prominent. Capitula solitary, c. 3 mm. diam., subsessile, invested by lvs; phyll. up to 3 mm. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, scarious, nerves us. prominent. Florets 15-20; ♀ with slender corolla-tube, 4-lobed; disk-florets subfunnelform, us. 5-lobed. Achenes c. 1-2 mm. long, linear-clavate, distinctly to obscurely 4-ribbed, pubescent to glab.

2n = 18

Herbs forming low, soft patches or cushions. Leaves ± needle-like, erectopatent, linear, 5-7 (-13) × 1 mm; apex apiculate; margins hairy towards the base. Capitula subsessile among the leaves; peduncle without bracts, not elongated in fruit. Phyllaries 12, linear-oblong, obtuse, 3 translucent ducts, 3 mm long. Outer florets c. 10, cyathiform, 4-lobed, white, often with purple lobes, 1.7-1.8 mm long; vascular tissue central. Central florets 8-16, functionally male, white, 2.0-2.4 mm long; vascular tissue central; anthers c. 1 mm long. Cypsela obovoid-ellipsoid, ribbed, glabrous, 2 mm long; apex rimmed.