Stock stout, multicipital, stems short. Lvs rosulate, 3-7 cm. × 1-2 mm. (sts dwarfed to 1 cm. long), obtuse, somewhat coriac., ± rufous-pilose on margins near sheathing bases. Peduncles slender, 1-10 cm. long in fr., bracts lflike. Capitula solitary, paired, or few together, c. 5 mm. diam. Phyll. 7-14, narrow-oblong-obovate, subacute, 4-5 mm. long; pair of lateral nerves distant from midrib. Florets 20-25, not strongly dimorphic; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, indistinctly ± 4-ribbed or -angled.

2n = 18

Plants loosely caespitose, often creeping; stems slender, sparsely hairy, up to 12 cm tall. Leaves spreading-erect, linear, with a prominent mid-rib, (10-) 15-80 × 0.5-2.0 mm; apex retuse, obtuse or apiculate; margins most often hairy from base to half of their length. Capitula 1 (-3), pedunculate; peduncle glabrous or hairy, elongated in fruit; bracts 2-6 leaf-like. Pyllaries (8-) 10-14 (-19), oblong, acute-obtuse, with 3 translucent ducts. Outer florets 10-15, cyathiform, 4-lobed, white, 1.5-1.7 mm long; vascular tissue central or rudimentary. Central florets 8-16, functionally male, white, 2 mm long; vascular tissue central; anthers 1.0-1.2 rom long. Cypsela ellipsoid, straight or slightly curved, ribbed, glabrous, 1.5-2.5 mm long; apex rimmed or minutely beaked.