Gnaphalium capense Hilliard

Perennial herb, stems many from the crown, often c. 100-150 mm long, but up to 450 mm, simple or branched, suberect, decumbent or prostrate, greyish-white appressed woolly, densely leafy. Leaves ascending, mostly 6-20 x 1.5-3 mm, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, apex acute to obtuse, mucronate, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces greyish-white appressed-woolly. Heads turbinate-campanulate, c. 3.5-4.5 x 2.5-3 mm, in small corymbose clusters at the branch tips, usually closely surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, pale golden-brown or straw-coloured, lightly and loosely woolly on backs, inner bracts exceeding flowers by the length of their snow-white opaque tips, tips oblong, obtuse or rarely subacute, 2-3(-4) times as long as broad, often recurved. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 68-143,57-124 ('female'), 9-20 ('bisexual'), in the proportion 3-7.5:1, yellow. Achenes 0.5 mm long with duplex myxogenic hairs. Pappus on ('female') flowers scabrid, on ('bisexual') flowers shortly plumose at tips.