Celmisia sericophylla

Rootstock woody, branched; fibrous leaf remnants persistent. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate or elliptic, c. 5–25 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, both surfaces velvety, with antrorse flattened lustrous hairs, denser and silvery beneath, margins flat, leaves renewed annually. Scape (6–)10–45 cm high, greenish-white, silky- or woolly-tomentose; capitulum c. 4–6 cm diam; intermediate involucral bracts narrowly triangular-subulate, 10–15 mm long, 1.3–1.9 mm wide, densely tomentose with silvery hairs, tip flushed red or purple, margins densely fimbriate; ligules 14–18 mm long, white. Cypselas c. (3–)4–6 mm long, densely sericeous; pappus c. 5–6 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Feb.