Vellereophyton vellereum (R.A.Dyer) Hilliard

Soft-wooded perennial herb, stems up to 600 mm long, decumbent or ascending, often rooting near the base, branched, branches silky white-felted, leafy. Leaves mostly 25-40 x 5-10 mm, diminishing upwards, oblong-spathulate or oblanceolate, apex obtuse, base much narrowed, sessile, both surfaces white silky-woolly-felted. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 4 x 3 mm, many in small woolly-felted cymose clusters at the branch tips, surrounded by a few small leaves. Involucral bracts in 4 series, slightly graded, outer webbed together with white wool, inner slightly exceeding the flowers, tips rounded, smooth, opaque milk-white, minutely radiating. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 25-40, 8-14 ('female'), 16-26 ('bisexual'). Achenes 0.75 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, subplumose in upper half, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.