Stems stout, decumbent, woody, ascending at tips, up to 3 dm. long; branches rather distant, clad for some time in lf-bases, ± densely clad in white woolly subappressed hairs (occ. only sparsely hairy). Lvs crowded towards tips of branches and branchlets. Lamina 20-25-(75) × 6-10 mm., on stout sheathing bases; oblong in outline to obovate-oblong, pinnate to pinnatifid with broad flat costa, rather thick, minutely glandular, clad in dense to sparse woolly hairs; segs with ascending teeth on upper or both margins. Primary pinnae when developed close-set, curved. Scape terminal, stout, < lvs, pilose, especially near capitulum. Bracts us. several, close-set in lower part of scape, broadly subulate; narrower and more distant in upper part. Capitula (5)-7-10 mm. (occ. larger); receptacle convex. Phyll. in several series, broad-oblong to broad-ovate, 2-3 mm. long, pale green, obtuse, ± chartaceous, ± pilose. Florets glandular; ♀ ovoid-oblong, minutely 4-toothed; ♂ us. ∞, narrow-funnelform, 5-toothed. Achenes 2-3 mm. long, obovoid-compressed, slightly curved, glandular, subtetragonous.

2n = 52

2n = 52

A robust but small-leaved, diffusely creeping perennial herb. Rhizomes on soil or rock surface, stout, 1-4 mm diam., covered with a thick mat of tangled woolly hairs but eventually becoming ± glabrous, brown and slightly woody; branches us. clustered, up to 4 radiating from around a flowering node, often repeated every few nodes several times per season; leaves 2-4 clustered at the apex, most 2-5 cm distant. Short shoots us. absent, occ. present as a few reduced leaves. Roots largely confined to older stems, us. slender, up to 1 mm diam. Leaves 1-pinnatifid, 1.0-2.5 × 0.4-1.0 cm; blade 0.5-2.0 cm long, broadly elliptic, thick, subfleshy, light green, with a few woolly hairs when young, especially on rhachis, later glabrous; midrib not raised on ventral surface; pinnae 3-5 pairs, distal ones overlapping, cut to rhachis, broadly elliptic or oblong if undivided; teeth up to 4 per pinna, on larger pinnae, mostly on distal margin, cut ca. ½ across pinna, triangular, obtuse. Peduncles borne on rhizomes, longer than leaves, 1-3 cm, nude, slender but with a thick mat of woolly hairs. Monoecious. Heads 0.6-1.0 cm diam., surface hemispherical; involucre hemispherical; phyllaries ca. 30 in 2-3 subequal rows, broadly elliptic, thick and subfleshy, green with deciduous woolly hairs and a narrow us. transparent scarious margin, not growing after anthesis; pistillate florets 50-100 in 2 or more rows, ca. 3.0 mm long, almost straight, yellow-green, corolla twice as long as wide, with equal teeth, staminate florets fewer, 70-90. Achenes up to 2.3 × 0.8 mm, not compressed, obscurely 4-angled, golden-brown, shiny, unwrinkled. Probably flowers from spring to autumn.