Authors: DC.   Less.  

Botanical Description

Densely mat-forming subshrublet with numerous short and densely leafy basal branches, 5-30cm high. Leaves leathery, hispid to almost glabrous, broadly obovate-spathulate, blunt, 2-5cm by 8-20mm, evenly serrate from base to tip with forward-pointing bristle-tipped teeth and slender false petioles. Peduncles erect, 2-25cm long, bare or with one to three small linear bracteoles. Flowerheads solitary, rounded, 1-1.4cm high and clearly wider, with purplish to pink (rarely yellow) broad ray florets 6-8mm in length. Chile, Santiago to the southern central cordilleras, on hot, bare slopes or among rocks and thickets to subalpine levels at 400-1800m. H. scaposus, from the same region, possesses the above characters except that it it always completely glabrous and has lanceolate acute and narrow leaves no more than 7mm wide.