Decumbent or ascending shrublet spreading by rhizomes to 1m. or more, with stems to 30cm Leaves sessile, leathery, 2- 3.5 by 1-1.5cm, oblong to elliptic, blunt or acute, entire or with up to six teeth each side, the upper ones bearing a long tendril, glabrous and rather shiny above, white tomentose beneath. Floral involucre formed of five to six series of bracts, those nearest the base semicircular with a long, reflexed lanceolate appendage, ray florets eight to ten, 3cm by 8mm, warm salmony-pink. Argentina and Chile, the southern central cordilleras, in warm sunny depressions among bare flat ridge rocks at the interface between pure steppe and alpine zones at 1000-1600m. [Pl.281].
