Description: Plants densely cespitose, cushion forming, with a stout, woody, much-branched caudex covered with petiolar remains of previous years
Habitat: on the high volcanoes at 4500-5000m
Form of cushion | TC | Tufted cushion, densely caespitose |
Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
Variability | 0 | No variability |
Root system | P | Single pivotal root |
Woodiness | 1 | Woody at base |
Thorniness | 0 | No |
Succulence | 0 | No |
Flowers | 0 | Flowers sessil |