Argyrotegium mackayi

Rhizomatous, mat-forming perennial. Leaves mostly basal, crowded toward branch-tips, spathulate or oblanceolate, 6–15 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, both surfaces silvery or whitish with dense, appressed cottony hairs. Flowering stems erect or ascending, 0–3 cm high (to 5 cm rarely 10 cm in fruit), with c. 5–10 leaves not or hardly smaller than basal ones. Inflorescence a terminal capitulum, with or without single capitula in axils of lower leaves, but usually becoming pedunculate in fruit. Capitula campanulate or cup-shaped; inner bracts c. oblong, 3.8–5 mm long, acute to obtuse, rarely emarginate, often with a red-purple band just below the straw-coloured tip; bisexual florets 6–10. Cypselas c. 1 mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Flowers Dec.–Jan.