Stuartina hamata

Branches prostrate to ascending, c. 1–20 cm long. Leaves c. 8–20 mm long, 2.5–8 mm wide, the portion above the long, attenuated base somewhat orbicular, greenish and sparsely cottony above, greyish and densely cottony below, margins not or barely undulate. Compound heads c. 4–12 mm diam., with c. 5–35 capitula; involucral bracts 2–4 mm long, in c. 3 uneven rows, the outer bracts more or less hyaline and lacking recurved apices, 4–6 middle and innermost bracts longer with yellow, rigid, hook-like apices; florets 5–6. Cypselas c. 1 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.