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Mat-forming, prostrate or decumbent, grey-woolly, annual herb, 0.01-0.15 m long. Leaves alternate, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, thin, loosely woolly. Capitula disciform, small, closely surrounded by leaves, massed in dense, rounded, woolly clusters at ends of branchlets; involucral bracts in 2 rows, obtuse, pale straw-coloured. Ray florets female, much more than disc florets, whitish, apex sometimes reddish. Disc florets bisexual, corolla tubular below, campanulate above, 5-lobed, all lobes glandular-hairy on backs, whitish, apex sometimes reddish. Flowering time Sept.-Dec. Pappus of bristles, delicately plumose from base, tipped with a pair of pointed cells, cohering by a few patent cilia at base. Cypselae hairy.
Annual herb, stems up to 150 mm long; mat-forming. Leaves alternate; blade small, thin, very narrowly obovate to linear-oblong, margins entire, loosely woolly. Heads disciform, closely surrounded by leaves, massed in woolly glomerules at branchlet tips. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, slightly exceeding florets, apices obtuse, pale straw-coloured, stereome divided. Flowers: outer filiform female florets at least 6 x as many as bisexual disc florets; disc whitish, tips sometimes reddish; Aug., Sep. Fruit with cypsela oblong, usually myxogenic hairy. Pappus of bristles cohering by a few patent cilia at base, delicately plumose from base, tipped with a pair of pointed cells.
Dwarf, prostrate annual, up to 50 mm tall. Leaves spathulate or oblong-spathulate, greyish white-woolly. Flowerheads discoid, small, in dense, rounded, woolly clusters at ends of branchlets; involucral bracts pale straw-coloured; disc white, tips occasionally reddish. Cypselas with mucilage-producing hairs; pappus plumose from base.
Mat-forming annual herb. Leaves thin, loosely woolly. Pappus bristles cohering by a few patent cilia at base; delicately plumose from base, tipped with a pair of pointed cells. Female flowers at least 6 times as many as bisexual flowers. Flowers: involucral bracts pale straw-coloured; disc flowers whitish, tips sometimes reddish.
Dwarf, densely grey-woolly, prostrate annual to 5 cm. Leaves spathulate. Flower heads disciform, in dense rounded woolly clusters, white; pappus plumose.
