Stoebe prostrata L.

Low, prostrate or trailing shrublets, up to 0.35 m tall. Branches slender, slightly woody, profusely branched, with branches entangled, frequently very leafy. Leaves linear-oblong; up to 11 x 3 mm, mostly somewhat shorter, up to 7 mm; mucronate, flat, margins somewhat involute, twisted near the base and often curled pigtail-like; midrib prominent; abaxial surface tomentose. Synflorescences with capitula grouped in globose or subglobose, terminal heads, 10 mm in diam. Capitula homogamous, discoid, 1-flowered. Involucral bracts 8-10, in few rows, the outer hairy and green-tipped, the inner scarious, narrow and almost transparent, acute, slightly longer than the corolla tube. Florets bisexual, dark pink, light pink or white; corolla lobes triangular, spreading. Stamens 5, apical appendages lanceolate, basally tailed. Style bifid, swollen at the base. Nectaries present. Cypselas small, short-hairy with short, inflated, stout hairs, hairs adpressed in lower half spreading towards the annulus. Pappus setae 14-18, fine, fused at the base, about as long as the corolla tube, with a few short barbs near the base, plumose above.