Trichanthodium skirrophorum

Annual herbs 3–35 cm high; branches densely lanate. Leaves lanceolate or linear, 5–30 mm long, 0.5–1.2 mm wide, tomentose, grey-green. Compound heads broadly depressed-ovoid to obloid, 4–12 mm long, 5–15 mm diam., subtended by a general involucre of outer leaf-like bracts and inner hyaline bracts, the longest to c. one-third as long as head but inconspicuous in mature heads; general receptacle transversely ellipsoid, bristly. Capitula 25–200 per compound head; involucral bracts 5–6, outer ones densely hairy at apex, inner 1 or 2 conduplicate, midrib indistinct, glabrous or sparsely hairy at apex. Cypselas 1–1.3 mm long; pappus cup-like, 0.6–1.2 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.