Helichrysum anomalum Less.

Bushy dwarf shrublet up to 300 mm tall and as much across, branches closely grey-woolly, densely leafy. Leaves 3-14 x 1-3 mm, diminishing in size upwards, much reduced and distant below the flowering heads, linear, lanceolate or oblong, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate, sometimes recurved, base broad, half-clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces closely grey-woolly. Heads heterogamous, cylindric-campanulate, ±4 x 2.5 mm, few to many in dense cymose clusters terminating the branches. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, graded, closely imbricate, very obtuse, outer pale brown, pellucid, inner about equalling flowers, tips opaque or pellucid, bright canary yellow, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils 2 to 3 times as long as the ovaries. Flowers 17-50, 4-12 female, 13-40 homogamous. Achenes ±0.75 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles very few, about equalling the ovary in length.