Description: Softly and smoothly cushion-like, formed of many rather slender main branches up to 20cm long
Habitat: on stony barrens and slopes and dwarf cushion and bunch-grass puna at 3500-4900m
Form of cushion | F | Low cushion |
Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
Variability | 0 | No variability |
Root system | P | Single pivotal root |
Woodiness | NA | NA |
Thorniness | 0 | No |
Succulence | 0 | No |
Flowers | 0 | Flowers sessil |