Differs from similar T. capillaris in having pendent deep yellow rotate flowers, bracts membranaceous, glabrous, costate; leaves succulent, densely white-lepidote, black spotted with serrate-dentate margin and acutely mucronated top.
Very densely pulvinate to 30 cm across; branches caulescent, up 25 cm long, densely branched toward apex.
Distribution W Bolivia, dept. Potosi, on red sandstone-walls E of town Potosi, ca 2950 m.
