Gnaphalium nelsonii Burtt Davy

White-woolly perennial herb, branches 40-200 mm long, erect or decumbent, simple or subsimple, many tufted from the crown, leafy. Leaves 6-16 x 1.5-2.5 mm, ascending, more or less appressed, linear-lanceolate, apex acute, mucronate, both surfaces white-tomentose. Heads c. 3 x 3 mm, several in congested corymbose clusters at the leafy branch tips. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, outer straw-coloured, lightly cobwebby, tips of inner obtuse or subacute, opaque dirty white or white, scarcely exceeding the flowers. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 56-118,39-89 ('female'), 17-29 ('bisexual') in the proportion 2-3.5:1. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus present on all flowers.