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 |