DistributionIn the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Kure, Laysan, Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Kaho`olawe, Hawai`i.

 

Habit

Suffruticose perennial herbs; stems prostrate, rooting along lower surface, 4-20 dm long. 

Leaves

Leaves thick, often somewhat fleshy, oblong to spatulate, (0.4-)0.8-3 cm long, (0.2-)0.4-1.5 cm wide, both surfaces densely strigillose, margins entire to scarcely serrate, petioles 0.2-1 cm long, with winged margins. 

Flowers

Heads solitary or in clusters of 2-3; outer involucral bracts ovate to oblong, 3-3.6 mm long, 1.6-2.3 mm wide, strigillose, apex rounded; chaffy bracts tan throughout; ray florets (4-)8-10 per head, rays ovate to oblong, 3.3-5.1 mm long, 2.5-4.3 mm wide; disk florets (25-)30-50 per head, corollas 5-merous, (2.4-)2.7-3.6 mm long; anthers (1.2-)1.4-1.6 mm long; pappus of short deciduous awns. 

Fruit

Achenes nearly smooth, wingless, ray achenes 2-2.5 mm long, 1.9-2.7 mm wide, disk achenes 2.4-3 mm long, 1.7-2.7 mm wide. 

Chromosomes

2n = 30*