Gnaphalium filagopsis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Silvery grey perennial herb, stems many from the crown, simple to well-branched, erect or decumbent, leafy. Leaves usually appressed-ascending, mostly 4-10(-15) x 1-2 mm, linear or oblong-linear, very rarely ungulate, apex acute or subacute, mucronate, both surfaces silvery grey tomentose or silky-tomentose. Heads 2.5-3.5 x 2-2.5 mm, few to several subcorymbosely arranged, terminal, usually ± surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer short, golden-brown, glabrous or nearly so, tips of inner bracts oblong, obtuse, or rarely subacute, opaque, snow-white, exceeding the flowers. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 67-140, 54-107 ('female'), 12-35 ('bisexual') in the proportions 3-5(-7):1. Achenes 0.5 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus usually wanting in the ('female') flowers, or occasionally a few bristles present.