Description:A densely cespitose perennial, with many ascending, slightly branched, glabrous stems 6-10 cm. long, clothed below with dead leaf bases
Habitat:Cajamarca: Above Hualgayoc, 4,000 meters (Weberbauer 3985, type).
| Form of cushion | TC | Tufted cushion, densely caespitose |
| Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
| Variability | NA | NA |
| Root system | NA | NA |
| Woodiness | NA | NA |
| Thorniness | 0 | No |
| Succulence | 0 | No |
| Flowers | NA | NA |