Kippistia suaedifolia

Erect, often rounded, bright green, aromatic shrub to c. 40 cm high; stems glabrous or with sparse, minute erect glandular hairs when young. Leaves c. terete, 3–10 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, somewhat fleshy, recurved and shortly apiculate at apex, glabrous. Capitula c. hemispherical, 4–8 mm diam. Involucral bracts subequal, c. subulate, 2–3 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, acute, at least the innermost with fimbriate apices; ligules of ray florets 0.5–1.5 mm long. Cypselas of ray florets pinkish at maturity, 0.8–1 mm long, with pappus of free bristles c. 1 mm long; disc cypselas sterile (in all Victorian specimens examined), c. 0.5 mm long, with cup-like pappus 0.6–0.9 mm long. Flowers mostly Sep.–Nov.