Perennial, with up to 5 cm tall numerous caespitose monocephalous twigs bearing brownish sheaths of old leaves towards the base, densely leafy above. Rhizome horizontally creeping, ± glabrous. Leaves subsessile with basally ±winged peioles, upper arachnoid hairy, lower almost glabrous, spathulate, 10-15 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, palmately 3 (-5)-lobed, lobes oblong, 1.5 – 2 mm long, obtuse. Capitula solitary, tomentose below the involucre, 1.8 – 2.5 (-3) cm across, on very short sparsely tomentose peduncles. Involucre broadly napiform or broad bowl-shaped, 10-15 mm broad, phyllaries oblong, 3.5 –4.5 mm long, broadly brown-margined, often sparsely hairy toward the obtuse apices. Ray-florets 10 – 15, sterile, with 8 – 10 (-12) x 3 – 4 mm, pink or whitish-pink to almost white, apically 3-fid limb. Disc-florets numerous, fertile, with 3.5 – 4.5 mm long, 5-lobed corolla tube. Cypselas oblong, 2.5 – 3 mm long, glabrous, dark brown. Pappus pinkish-brown, slightly more than twice as long as cypselas.