Helichrysum catipes Harv.

Bushy perennial herb, vegetative twigs congested, thin, woody, erect (?) or spreading, closely leafy, flowering twigs elongate, distantly leafy, all grey-woolly. Leaves mostly 6-13 x 3-6 mm, oblong-ovate, longer and narrower (±9-12 x 3 mm) on the flowering twigs, apex rounded, mucronate, base broad, clasping, both surfaces thinly greyish-woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±5 x 3 mm, ±6-12 in congested terminal clusters surrounded by leaf-like bracts each with a scarious appendage, webbed together with wool. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, scarcely graded, loosely imbricate, inner slightly shorter than flowers, oblong, tips rounded, straw-yellow, subopaque, minutely radiating, all but these tips loosely enveloped in wool. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers ±26-28, 5-7 female, 20-22 homogamous. Achenes 1 mm long, cylindric, with duplex hairs, not myxogenic. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, tips barbellate, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia, some light fusion as well. Flowering in December and March.