Vellereophyton lasianthum (Schltr. & Moeser) Hilliard

Annual (?) herb, whole plant densely white-woolly, stems several from the crown, up to 150 mm long, simple or subsimple, prostrate, leafy. Radical leaves up to 20 x 5 mm, subspathulate, obtuse; stem leaves mostly 5-15 x 3-5 mm, spathulate, obtuse. Heads homogamous, campanulate, c. 2.5 x 2 mm, shortly pedunculate, in few-headed, very woolly glomerules at the branch tips and opposite the upper leaves, the axillary branchlets sometimes elongating and over-topping the primary glomerule. Involucral bracts in 2 series, outer shorter than inner, inner about equalling flowers, minutely radiating, oblong, backs woolly, only extreme tips glabrous, spreading, crisped, sub-opaque, white, reddish above the stereome. Receptacle smooth. Flowers c. 11-12. Achenes elliptic in outline, 0.75 mm long, glabrous or hairy. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, tips subplumose, bases with patent cilia, not cohering.