Prostrate or scrambling subshrub with slender branched stems up to c. 3 dm. long; branchlets us. close-set, forming patches, ± 5 cm. long. Lvs ∞, densely imbricate, ascending, incurved at tips but becoming reflexed. Lamina 6-8-(12) × 1-1·5 mm.; linear, grading into sheath, coriac.; upper surface glab., ± glandular; lower surface similar; apex acuminate to obtuse; ± glandular-pubescent; sheath 2-3 mm. long, membr., with a few ± appressed hairs at base. Scape slender, 4-8 cm. long, glandular-pubescent, with or without floccose hairs; bracts similar to lvs, up to 10 mm. long. Capitula 10-20 mm. diam.; phyll. several, subulate-lanceolate to narrow-oblong, acute, up to 8 mm. long, glandular, hairs ± floccose. Ray-florets c. 10 mm. long, linear, abruptly expanded towards 3-5-toothed apex; disk-florets tubular, slightly > pappus. Achenes narrow-cylindric, compressed, 2-3 mm. long, ribs with long ascending hairs. Pappus-hairs sordid-white, very slender to filiform, finely barbellate, up to c. 5 mm. long.