Vellereophyton felinum Hilliard

Grey-woolly herb, probably perennial, branches 5-150 mm long, decumbent, rooting in lowermost part, woolly above, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 10-30 x 3-10 mm, diminishing upwards, spathulate, apex obtuse to subacute, apiculate, base much narrowed, both surfaces grey woolly-felted. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, several in small glomerules 5-10 mm across, solitary or subcorymbosely arranged at the branch tips, surrounded by reduced leaves. Involucral bracts in 3 series, backs woolly, outermost short, inner subequal, shaft purple-red, tips broadly ovate to subrotund, very obtuse, opaque white, exceeding flowers, radiating. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers c. 11-13, 1-2 ('female'), 9-11 ('bisexual'), yellow, tipped red. Achenes dimorphic, of ('female') flowers 0.75 mm long, glabrous, of ('bisexual')flowers 0.5 mm long, with duplex hairs, probably not myxogenie. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips subplumose, bases with patent cilia, cohering lightly.