Vellereophyton gracillimum Hilliard

White-woolly annual herb, stems 10-50 mm long, filiform, probably decumbent then erect, solitary, or several from the root, simple or subsimple, white-woolly, distantly leafy. Leaves mostly 5-10 x 2-4 mm, spathulate, apex obtuse to subacute, apiculate, base much narrowed, both surfaces white woolly-felted. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 2.5-3 x 1.5 mm, sessile or shortly pedunculate, several together subcorymbosely arranged at the tips of the apical branchlets. Involucral bracts in 3 series, outer short, inner subequal, backs woolly, tips ovate, very obtuse, opaque white, exceeding flowers, radiating. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 15-17, 4-6 ('female'), 10-12 ('bisexual'), yellow, tipped red-purple. Achenes 0.5 mm long, hairy, probably not myxogenic. Pappus bristles several, equalling corolla, subplumose above, the cilia white, bases with patent cilia, not cohering.