Argyrotegium nitidulum

Mat-forming perennial 1–3 cm high, with thick, branching stems. Leaves sessile, crowded toward branch-tips, the dead remains persisting on older stems, oblong or narrowly obovate, 5–7 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, surfaces densely felted, silvery or new growth yellowish. Inflorescence a single capitulum, terminal on branches, sessile at anthesis, sometimes developing a slender peduncle to c. 3 cm long in fruit. Capitulum cylindric or narrowly cup-shaped; inner bracts c. oblong, 7–9 mm long, obtuse, hyaline to pale translucent brown in the upper half; bisexual florets 4–10. Cypselas 1.3–1.5 mm long, smooth and glabrous Flowers Dec.–Jan.