Lasiopogon brachypterus O.Hoffm. ex Zahlbr.

Diminutive annual herb 10-50 mm tall, stems filiform, erect or suberect, simple or branched from the base, then simple or sparingly branched above, loosely woolly, leafy. Leaves 2-9 x 0.25-1 mm, longest at the root, oblong or oblong-spathulate, apex obtuse or subacute, base slightly narrowed, both surfaces loosely greyish white appressed woolly. Heads heterogamous, cylindric-campanulate, c. 1.5 x 1 mm, few to several in loose leafy clusters terminating the branchlets. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, equalling flowers, tips pellucid, colourless or purplish around the stereome, light golden brown to straw-coloured above, very obtuse, almost truncate, rotate when the achenes are shed. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 9-26, 6-20 ('female'), 3-10 ('bisexual'), whitish, tipped purplish red. Achenes 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles shortly plumose in upper half, base with delicate patent cilia cohering lightly, soon caducous.