Gnaphalium declinatum L.F.

Stoloniferous mat-forming perennial herb, stems prostrate or decumbent, flowering branchlets mostly 30-100 mm long, simple or subsimple, leafy. Leaves imbricate ascending, mostly 4-10 x 1-3 mm, linear, linear-lingulate or narrowly elliptic, tips more or less acute, both surfaces silky-silvery. Heads c. 3-4 x 2.5 mm, sometimes solitary, usually several corymbosely arranged at the branch tips, individual peduncles often conspicuous but compound inflorescence generally closely surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, golden-brown, glabrous, tips of inner lanceolate or sometimes oblong, acute or subacute, snow-white, exceeding the flowers by their length. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 57-100(-190),45-75(-160) ('female'), 12-34 ('bisexual'), in the proportion 2-3(-5):1. Achenes 0.5 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus present on all flowers, scabrid on ('female'), tips shortly plumose on ('bisexual').