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Greyish white-woolly, prostrate, annual herb, 0.01-0.08 m long. Leaves alternate, small, oblanceolate to spathulate, entire, loosely greyish white-woolly. Capitula disciform, surrounded by leaves and webbed together with wool, few or many together in small, woolly glomerules terminating the branchlets; involucral bracts glabrous, in 2 rows, outer row short, ovate, acute, inner row lanceolate, exceeding the florets, obtuse, often minutely notched, straw-coloured, sometimes tinged purple. Ray florets female, narrowly tubular or filiform, more than disc florets, purple tipped. Disc florets bisexual, corolla tubular below, campanulate above, 5-lobed, all lobes glandular-hairy on backs, purple tipped. Flowering time June-Aug. (Nov.). Pappus of barbellate bristles with scabrid tip and bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Cypselae oblong, usually minutely hairy.
Annual herb, stems up to 80 mm long; procumbent, greyish white-woolly. Leaves alternate; blade small, linear to very narrowly obovate, margins entire, loosely greyish white-woolly. Heads disciform, surrounded by leaves and webbed together with wool, few or many together in small, woolly glomerules terminating branchlets. Involucral bracts glabrous, biseriate; outer short, ovate, acute; inner linear, exceeding florets, apex obtuse, often minutely notched, straw-coloured, sometimes tinged purple, stereome divided. Flowers: outer florets female, narrowly tubular or filiform, more than disc florets, purple-tipped; disc florets bisexual, corolla tubular below, campanulate above, purple-tipped; May-Oct. Fruit with cypsela oblong, usually minutely myxogenic hairy. Pappus of barbellate bristles with scabrid tips, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.
Similar to L. brachypterus but pappus barbellate throughout and cypselas with mucilage-producing hairs.
Similar to L. brachypterus but pappus barbellate throughout.
