Main stems prostrate, up to 1 m. long, woody, 2-5 mm. diam.; branches decumbent, flowering portions ascending, tomentose. Lvs sessile, 1∙5-3 cm. × 5-10 mm., obovate-apiculate, us. mucronate; margins slightly revolute; upper surface glab. when mature, lower with appressed white tomentum; midrib us. evident below, lateral veins invisible or obscure. Infl. of few tomentose bracteate branchlets; capitula seldom > 10, c. 1∙5 cm. diam.; receptacle c. 4 mm. diam., often distinctly concave with raised centre, closely alveolate. Phyll. c. 7 mm. long, white, clawed. Achenes linear-oblong, c. 1 mm. long. Pappus 3-4 mm. long, of c. 10 hairs.