Helichrysum dasyanthum Sweet

Shrub or subshrub, erect to ±1 m, or sprawling or straggling, branches long, thin, greyish-white woolly, long spreading hairs as well, these sometimes rufous, leafy, flowering twigs more distantly so. Leaves mostly 6-30 x 2.5-10 mm, becoming smaller below the heads, elliptic, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sessile, apex obtuse or subacute, mucronate, sometimes recurved, margins subrevolute, often undulate, thinly greyish-white woolly above or wool sometimes wanting, long spreading hairs as well, whitish or rufous, thickly woolly below, also with spreading hairs. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 3 mm, many in compact terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, imbricate, graded, just overtopping flowers, silky-villous dorsally, outer lanceolate, often dark-tipped, inner oblong, tips rounded, glabrous, semi-opaque, pale straw-yellow, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils much exceeding the ovaries. Flowers 17-28, 3-10 female, occasionally with staminodes, 12-24 homogamous. Achenes ±0.75 mm, those from homogamous flowers often ± one third smaller, barrel-shaped, obscurely ribbed, in female flowers with duplex hairs, not myxogenic, in homogamous flowers usually glabrous, very rarely hairy. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, barbellate, bases lightly fused as well as cohering by patent cilia.