Description:Perennial herbs, forming dense, hard cushions up to several meters in diameter; single plants consisting of 5-15 cm long, more or less regularly forked shoots, covered by short, strictly distichous, persistent, stramineous or rarely dark brown, wilted lea
Habitat:wet puna at 3600-4600m
| Form of cushion | TC_M | Intermediate beetweenT C & M types |
| Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
| Variability | 0 | No variability |
| Root system | A | Numerous adventious roots |
| Woodiness | 0 | Herbaceaous |
| Thorniness | 0 | No |
| Succulence | 0 | No |
| Flowers | 0 | Flowers sessil |