Millotia perpusilla

Prostrate herb, branches 1.5–10 cm long, with white, cottony hairs and stalked glandular hairs. Leaves mainly linear, sometimes narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 3–25 mm long, with white, cottony hairs and stalked, glandular hairs. Involucral bracts 4–6, uniseriate, connate for two-thirds to three-quarters their length, 3.5–4.5 mm long, mainly herbaceous but apices hyaline and often purplish, surface often obscured by tangled cottony hairs, stalked glandular hairs also present. Florets 2–10; corolla (3–)4(–5)-lobed, yellow or purplish; anthers c. 0.3–0.5 mm long. Cypselas abruptly tapering to a beak, 3.5–4.5 mm long in all, mainly papillate or smooth, but with long cottony hairs in upper part; beak usually prominently curved, not dilated apically and not obviously demarcated from the corolla-tube; pappus absent Flowers Aug.–Oct.