Description: Convex cushion-forming, 3-12cm high and up to 40cm wide but usually much less, densely adpressed silvery-silky hairy throughout. The main taproot often branches into a network of rhizomes just below the surface where the plant is regularly buried by loose
Habitat: at 1700-4000m. (In var. australis the corolla scarcely exceeds the calyx
Form of cushion | C | Hemispherical (dome shaped) cushion |
Compactness | 0 | Hollow, with canopy gaps |
Variability | 0 | No variability |
Root system | NA | NA |
Woodiness | 2 | Woody dwarf shrub |
Thorniness | 0 | No |
Succulence | 0 | No |
Flowers | 0 | Flowers sessil |