Ifloga thellungiana Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Annual herb sometimes flowering in seedling stage, then stem erect, 15-20 mm long, or when well-grown forming small mats up to 80 mm across, then stems prostrate or decumbent, filiform, simple or branched, clothed in thin 'tissue-paper' indumentum, glabrescent, distantly leafy. Leaves 3-8 x 0.5-0.75 mm, radical leaves longest, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, conspicuously white mucronate, margins involute, lower surface glabrous or with thin 'tissue-paper' indumentum, soon glabrescent, upper surface thinly and persistently appressed white-woolly. Heads cylindric-campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, solitary or 2-3 together, closely surrounded and overtopped by leaves, the minute branchlets bearing the heads often crowded towards the tips of the main branches or racemosely arranged. Involucral bracts in c. 3 series, generally surrounding both female and hermaphrodite flowers, or occasionally one female flower outside main involucre and subtended by a cymbiform bract, bracts all straw-coloured, translucent, acuminate, glabrous. Flowers 15-38; 11-35 female, corollas filiform, 2-7 hermaphrodite, corollas cylindric, all fertile. Achenes 0.75 mm long, hairy. Pappus generally present on both female and hermaphrodite flowers, patent intermingling cilia at base, shaft naked, tip shortly plumose; or absent in female flowers that occur outside main involucre. The plants are very small and delicate and are easily overlooked.