Helichrysum albirosulatum Killick

Prostrate well-branched shrublet, main branches bare, up to 10 mm diam., with numerous erect leafy dwarf lateral branches, flowering branches up to 120 mm long, often decumbent then erect, silvery-white felted, closely leafy throughout. Leaves at first rosetted at the branch tips, up to 25 x 6 mm, spathulate, apex rounded or subacute, slightly recurved, base half-clasping, both surfaces enveloped in silvery white, slightly glossy, very closely felted indumentum, stem leaves similar but often smaller and narrower. Heads homogamous, subcylindric, ±4 x 2-3 mm, many felted together at the base in a congested, rounded, corymbose cluster 10-20 mm across. Involucral bracts in ±3 series, loosely imbricate, about equalling flowers, obtuse, not radiating, translucent, pale yellow washed golden-brown outside. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±8-26, yellow. Achenes 1 mm, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles ±6-10, tips plumose, shaft nude, bases not cohering.