Helichrysum edwardsii Wild

Subshrub up to 1 m tall, stock with woolly vegetative buds or leaf tufts, stems several to many from the base, stout, woody, simple or sparingly branched below the inflorescence branches, glandular-setose, often thinly white woolly-cobwebby as well, densely leafy. Radical leaves (seen in one specimen only) rosulate, oblong, acute, ±50-55 x 8-15 mm, thinly greyish-white woolly on both surfaces; cauline leaves mostly 40-75(-100) x 18-28(-40) mm, smaller on the inflorescence branches, oblong or ovate, acute, mucronate, base broad, cordate-clasping, both surfaces glandular-setose, lower leaves at least initially greyish-white woolly on both surfaces as well, upper surface usually glabrescent, but upper leaves, particularly those on the inflorescence branches, often without wool or with wool confined to the margins and midline. Heads heterogamous, depressed-globose, ±14-17 mm long, 28-36 mm across the radiating bracts, several corymbosely arranged, the inflorescence branches simple or subsimple, closely leafy up to the heads. Involucral bracts in ±9 series, graded, imbricate, inner much exceeding the flowers, glossy, pale yellow inside, light golden-brown outside. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers ±830-2350, 100-165 female, 700-2200 homogamous. Achenes ±1 mm long, barrel-shaped, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, tips barbellate, shaft scabrid, bases with patent cilia, cohering lightly or not.