Helichrysum argentissimum J.M.Wood

Mat-forming perennial herb with numerous crowded leaf rosettes arising from a thick, woody, well-branched underground stem system, flowering stems terminal, solitary, up to 400 mm long, but often less than 150 mm, grey-woolly, leafy. Radical leaves up to 120 x 6 mm, but often only 30-50 x 3-4 mm, linear or linear-lanceolate, apex acute to subacute, silvery grey silky-woolly; cauline leaves similar but shorter, uppermost with a white scarious tip. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, campanulate, ±20 mm long, double that across the fully radiating bracts, solitary. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, graded, loosely imbricate, much exceeding the flowers, acute, glossy white, crimson or pink blotch at base inside. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 111-201, 0-10 female, 103-191 homogamous. Achenes 1.5 mm long, barrel-shaped, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, tips barbellate, bases cohering by patent cilia, some fusion in bundles as well.