Plecostachys polifolia (Thunb.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

Much-branched, straggling subshrub, branches slender, young parts thinly white-tomentose, leafy, often with axillary leaf tufts. Leaves up to 25 x 7 mm, elliptic tapering to a short petiole-like base, apex obtuse, apiculate, somewhat recurved, margins flat or nearly so, upper surface cobwebby and soon glabrous, or persistently white-tomentose, lower white-tomentose. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, c. 2.5-3 x 2 mm, base woolly, many in congested rounded clusters terminating the branchlets. Involucral bracts in c. 4 series, closely imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, tips obtuse, commonly dirty-white, minutely radiating. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 17-41, 10-28 ('female'), 4-20 ('bisexual'), 1/2 flowers usually outnumbering ('bisexual'), yellow, sometimes tinged purple. Achenes 0.5 mm long with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, a little shorter than corolla, scabrid, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia. Flowers between September and December, mainly November and December.