Leiocarpa panaetioides

Bushy perennial, 10–60 cm high; stems usually woolly or cobwebbed and silvery grey. Leaves narrow-linear, mostly 1–1.5 cm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, acuminate, mucronate, both surfaces woolly or cobwebbed but usually more densely so below, margins entire, recurved. Capitula more or less hemispherical, 8–10 mm diam.; involucral bracts more or less linear, to 5 mm long, unequal, usually cottony or woolly, at least on margins; outer bracts with tiny scarious apices; inner bracts with acute or acuminate scarious apices. Florets yellow. Cypselas 2–2.5 mm long, usually with a few glandular hairs towards apex, with or without scattered simple hairs on body; pappus bristles 12–16, 3–5 mm long. Flowers mostly spring and summer.