Prostrate to ascending, sparsely lanate to almost glabrate herb, branches up to 20 cm long, sometime rooting from the nodes. Leaves oblong–obovate to spatulate, 0.3–1.2 (–2.7) cm long, 0.15 – 0.4 cm wide, lanate to glabrescent with coarsely toothed margins. Capitula sessile or shortly pedunculate, ± globose or subglobular, 0.15 – 0.25 cm across. Phyllaries biseriate, obovate – spatulate, ca 1 mm long, with erose, membranous margins; receptacle ± hemispherical. Ray florets many, female, ligules 4–lobed, tapering to the base, purplish. Disc florets bisexual, corolla tube ca 1 mm long with campanulate, 4–lobed limb. Cypselas narrowly cuneate, 4–5–angled, to 1 mm long, angles hairy, apically truncate 4–6 (–8) ribbed with short glandular hairs in between ribs.