#siloxerus

Widespread through dryish lowland woodlands and forests in the southern states of Australia, and a small part of Tasmania, often on shallow or rocky soils.

A small annual, in a small genus - four species within the Paper Daisy or Pussy’s Toes tribe (Gnaphalieae) of the Asteraceae. The small size of the plant and the genus certainly doesn’t stop it flowering profusely, or young. 

Siloxerus is from the Greek words stylos and ogceros, meaning swollen pillar. It refers to the swollen base of the style. humifusis is from the Latin words humi and fusus, meaning ‘spread out on the ground’. The combination of Latin and Greek does make me wince, but there’s not much I can do about that, and it’s hardly the only binomial that does. 

Found from Jurien Bay to Cape Arid, but never growing more than 9cm tall.