Argyrotegium poliochlorum

Rhizomatous perennial, sometimes mat-forming. Leaves mostly basal, crowded toward branch-tips, narrow-oblanceolate or -spathulate, with petiole-like base subequal to broader ‘blade’, 1.5–3.5(–5) cm long overall, 1.5–4(–6) mm wide, both surfaces grey-green with moderately dense, appressed cottony hairs. Flowering stems erect, 4–12 cm high (to 20 cm in fruit), with c. 6–12 reduced leaves. Inflorescence a terminal cluster, elongating with maturity. Capitula 3–5(–7), pedunculate, subtended by a reduced leaf, c. cylindric; inner bracts c. oblong, 5–6.5 mm long, obtuse or ruminate at apex, usually with a reddish band just below the straw-coloured tip; bisexual florets 3–7. Cypselas glabrous, c. 1.4–1.6 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Feb.