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Annual herb forming small woolly mats up to 10—150 mm across, frequently much smaller, stems few to many from the crown, filiform, simple or branched, prostrate or decumbent, very loosely greyish-white woolly, distantly leafy then closely so under the heads. Leaves mostly 3—7 x 1—1,5 mm, smallest under the heads, up to 10 x 1,5 at the root, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, base much narrowed, both surfaces loosely greyish-white woolly. Heads hetero-gamous, campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, each closely surrounded by leaves then massed in woolly glomerules c. 3—15 mm across at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, pellu­cid, tips very obtuse, pale straw-coloured, sometimes subopaque, whole involucre rotate when achenes shed. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 36—59, 31-53 ("female"), 2-6 ("bisexual"), whitish, tips sometimes reddish, ("female") 6—25 times as many as ("bisexual"). Achenes 0,75 mm long, with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles dehcately plumose from the base, terminating in a pair of pointed cilia, a few small patent cilia at base. Fig. 2:4.

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Annual herb forming small woolly mats up to 10—150 mm across, frequently much smaller, stems few to many from the crown, filiform, simple or branched, prostrate or decumbent, very loosely greyish-white woolly, distantly leafy then closely so under the heads. Leaves mostly 3—7 x 1—1,5 mm, smallest under the heads, up to 10 x 1,5 at the root, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, base much narrowed, both surfaces loosely greyish-white woolly. Heads hetero-gamous, campanulate, c. 3 x 2 mm, each closely surrounded by leaves then massed in woolly glomerules c. 3—15 mm across at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, pellu­cid, tips very obtuse, pale straw-coloured, sometimes subopaque, whole involucre rotate when achenes shed. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 36—59, 31-53 ("female"), 2-6 ("bisexual"), whitish, tips sometimes reddish, ("female") 6—25 times as many as ("bisexual"). Achenes 0,75 mm long, with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles dehcately plumose from the base, terminating in a pair of pointed cilia, a few small patent cilia at base. Fig. 2:4.