Syncarpha canescens (L.) B.Nord.

Sparsely branched, closely leafy, grey-felted shrublet, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves alternate, small, densely set, elliptic, oblong or obovate, acute or obtuse, entire, sessile, ascending and imbricate, silvery white sericeous on both surfaces. Capitula discoid, mostly solitary at closely leafy branch tips, or distinctly pedunculate; involucral bracts imbricate, papery, acuminate, white, pink to red or mottled with red, brown and white. Florets maroon to purple. Flowering time July, Aug. Pappus of basally connate, plumose bristles, white but sometimes purplish pink. Cypselae oblong or ellipsoid, angular or ribbed, densely globose hairy.