Stuartina muelleri Sond.

Ascending to erect annual, often short-lived. Stems tomentose, becoming glabrous, much-branched above and below, 1–15 cm long. Basal lvs sparsely to moderately hairy on upper surface, densely tomentose on lower, orbicular to obovate, obtuse and mucronate at apex, cuneate to long petiole ± = or > lamina; cauline lvs similar, smaller, with lamina 2–7–(8) mm diam.; uppermost lvs sometimes spathulate. Capitula c. 1 mm diam., (2)–8-numerous in terminal or axillary clusters ± covered in dense woolly hairs and exceeded by subtending lvs. Outer involucral bracts hairy, c. 1 mm long, acute; inner bracts almost glabrous, 2–3 mm long, with lamina becoming darker and hooked at fruiting, and exposed above woolly hairs of cluster. Achenes minutely papillate, 0.8 mm long.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: (May)–Aug.–Nov.