Rhodanthe corymbiflora

Erect cottony annual to 35 cm high. Leaves alternate or the lower ones opposite, linear, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 10–50 mm long, 1–6 mm wide, often somewhat subamplexicaul, greyish, with dense cottony indumentum, margins sometimes undulate. Capitula possibly homogamous, ovoid, 10–16 mm long, 5–15 in loose to moderately dense corymbs; involucral bracts several-seriate, glabrous or with a few cottony hairs, outer bracts small, brown or yellow-brown, innermost bracts with hyaline-winged claws and spreading white laminae 5–7 mm long. Florets numerous, bisexual (innermost possibly functionally male). Cypselas c. 2.5 mm long, densely silky-hairy; pappus persistent, of c. 15 plumose bristles. Flowers Sep.–Dec.