Helichrysum albanense Hilliard

Perennial herb spreading by means of woody underground runners, flowering stems up to 400 mm long, erect or decumbent, simple or virgately branched, silky, closely leafy. Leaves erect, imbricate, mostly 8-20 x 2-6 mm, elliptic, apex obtuse or subacute, mucronate, somewhat hooked, base half-clasping, upper surface with thin skin-like indumentum, green drying grey, lower surface white silky-tomentose. Heads homogamous, turbinate, 3 x 2 mm, very many in dense, roundish, terminal corymbose clusters matted together with wool at the base, these clusters congested in a flattish corymbose cyme mostly 15-20 mm across. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, graded, outer brown, inner bright canary-yellow, subopaque, about equalling flowers, not radiating. Receptacle very shortly honeycombed. Flowers 8-12. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles few, tips shortly plumose, bases nude, not cohering.