Helichrysum argyrolepis Macowan

Soft-wooded subshrub with tangled masses of branching stems from a woody stock, stems greyish-white felted, closely leafy throughout. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, ±6-25 x 1-2(-3) mm, smaller and more distant upwards, appressed or spreading, eventually reflexed, tips acute or subacute, apiculate, base broad, half-clasping, margins more or less revolute, upper surface glandular-pubescent and thickly greyish-white cobwebby or woolly, lower more closely felted. Heads heterogamous, rarely homogamous, campanulate, 13-15 mm long, ±25 mm across the fully radiating bracts, solitary at branch tips. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, graded, loosely imbricate, inner much exceeding flowers, acute, glossy white, mostly palest to dark chestnut brown above, rarely rose-pink. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 111-232, (0-)5-25 female, 98-227 homogamous. Achenes 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, barbellate above, bases not cohering.