Gnaphalium austroafricanum Hilliard

Stoloniferous perennial herb, stems many from the crown, loosely branched, particularly above, prostrate or decumbent, branches mostly 150-450 mm long, lower part often nude and rooting, upper thinly greyish-white cottony, leafy. Leaves more or less spreading, c. 10-25(-35) x 2-4(-6) mm, narrowly spathulate, apex usually obtuse, sometimes subacute, mucronate, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces thinly greyish-white appressed tomentose. Heads campanulate, c. 3.5-4 x 3 mm, in small corymbose clusters generally borne well above the foliage on cottony peduncles, terminal or subterminal. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, golden-brown, loosely and lightly woolly, inner bracts exceeding flowers by the length of their snow-white opaque tips, tips obtuse or subacute, 2-3 times as long as broad. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate or shortly honeycombed. Flowers 83-145, 66-133 ('female'), 6-19 ('bisexual'), in the proportion 7-20:1. Achenes 0.5 mm long with duplex myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles wanting in ('female') flowers, with shortly plumose tips in ('bisexual') flowers.