Prostrate or diffuse grey- or sometimes white-woolly herb, possibly annual, main branches 40-450 mm long, many from the crown, congested or lax, much branched above, loosely woolly, leafy. Leaves mostly 7-20 x 4-8 mm, spathulate to elliptic-spathulate, obtuse, base narrowed, margins flat, both surfaces woolly-felted, uppermost leaves, particularly those surrounding the heads, often folded lengthwise and recurÂved. Heads homogamous or rarely hetero-gamous, campanulate, 5—6 x 3—4 mm, sometimes solitary, mostly c. 3—12 crowded in small glomerules terminating the branch-lets. Involucral bracts in 4 series, outer short, webbed with wool to surrounding leaves, inner subequal, exceeding flowers, soon caducous, colour very variable, pale straw to deep straw to golden brown or crimson, or combination of these colours, tips very acute to acuminate, opaque, strongly hooked, concolorous or colour contrasting with that of shaft. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 13—27, 2—3 occasÂionally 9- Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs, or very rarely glabrous. Pappus bristles many, in several series, equalling corolla, delicate, scabrid, ba
