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Perennial herb, up to 20 mm high; procumbent, densely tufted, mat-forming, closely leafy. Leaves: blade linear, up to 5-10 x 0.5 mm, apex obtuse to subacute, base broad, clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces enveloped in silvery tissue paper-like indumentum, with orange glands. Heads discoid, cylindric-turbinate, ± 5 x 2 mm, solitary to several clustered at branchlet tips. Involucral bracts in ± 6 series, outermost short, webbed together and to surrounding leaves with wool, inner series subequal, tips opaque white or sometimes pale pink, slightly exceeding florets, minutely radiating, stereome divided. Receptacle epaleate, with flattened tubercles. Flowers: disc florets only, 11-24; corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow, often tipped pink; Aug.-Dec. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hairy. Pappus of many barbellate bristles, bases with minute patent cilia not cohering.
Perennial herb, much branched, branchlets ± 10 mm high, closely leafy. Leaves ± patent, up to 5-10 x 0.5 mm, linear, ± subacute, base broad, clasping, margins revolute, silvery, tissue paper-like indumentum, later woolly, with orange glands. Capitula cylindric-turbinate, 1-several clustered terminally; involucral bracts in ± 6 series, outermost short, pellucid, webbed together and to surrounding leaves with wool; inner series subequal, apex opaque white or pale pink. Receptacle with flattened tubercles. Flowers 11-24, yellow, often tipped pink. Flowering time Aug.-Dec. Pappus of many bristles, equalling corolla, bases with minute patent cilia not cohering. Cypselae 0.75 mm long, elliptic.
Prostrate, mat-forming perennial herb. Leaves 5-10 x 0.5 mm, linear, base broad, clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces enveloped in silvery tissue-paper-like indumentum. Heads cylindric-turbinate, solitary to several clustered at branchlet tips. Flowers yellow, often tipped pink; tips of involucral bracts opaque white or sometimes pale pink.
