Eumorphia sericea subsp. sericea J.M.Wood & M.S.Evans

Much-branched, dwarf shrub, 0.2-1.3 m high; outer branches sometimes decumbent, nude below, rough with leaf scars, grey (because of its thick indumentum) silky-woolly, glabrescent, twigs closely leafy. Leaves opposite, grey silky-woolly, hairs fluffed up from leaf surface, primary leaves linear or digitately 3-lobed, ±8 x 1.5 mm, appearing fascicled from closely leafy, dwarf axillary shoots. Capitula solitary, shortly pedunculate, radiate. Involucre campanulate, ±7 x 10 mm when pressed, villous. Involucral bracts: 3 rows, imbricate; outer 3 x 1.5 mm, ovate; middle 4 x 1.5 mm; inner 6.5 x 1.5 mm, obtuse with scarious and lacerate tips. Receptacle paleate; paleae membranous, narrowly lanceolate, ±5 x 0.5 mm. Ray florets female, 3-toothed usually white, but sometimes rose-pink, or white flushed with pink; corolla glandular; corolla limb 10.5 mm long; corolla tube up to 1.8 mm long. Style 3 mm long, branched, style branches 0.3 mm long with stigmatic areas along edges. Ovary 2.2 mm long, slightly striate. Disc florets bisexual, glandular, 5-lobed, yellow; lobes ovate, 0.1 mm long; corolla limb 2 mm long; corolla tube 1 mm long. Anthers minutely caudate, apical appendages elongated, obtuse; filaments thickened. Style up to 2.5 mm long, branched, style branches 0.18 mm long with stigmatic areas along edges. Ovary 2.2 mm long, slightly striate. Cypsela narrowly cylindric, ±2.5 mm long, closely ribbed, glabrous but minutely papillose especially on ribs, crowned with thickened apical rim. Pappus absent.