Lasiopogon debilis (Thunb.) Hilliard

Annual herb forming small mats up to c. 150 mm across, stems few to many from the crown, simple or branched, prostrate to suberect, thinly appressed cobwebby, distantly leafy but closely so under the heads. Leaves mostly 3-7 x 1-2 mm, smallest under the heads, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, apex rounded, base narrowed, somewhat fleshy, thinly woolly particularly when young. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, c. 2 x 2 mm, each surrounded by a few leaves, massed in glomerules c. 5-15 mm across at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, about equalling flowers, tips pellucid, very obtuse, sometimes emarginate, pale straw-coloured, sometimes subopaque at e x treme tip. Receptacle shallowly tuberculate. Flowers 19-37, 12-22 ('female'), 7-15 ('bisexual'), ('female') slightly outnumbering ('bisexual'). Achenes 0.5 mm long with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles shortly plumose in upper half, the upper barbs clavate and white, weakly developed patent cilia at base.