Helichrysum excisum Less.

Densely twiggy dwarf shrub up to 450 mm tall, very aromatic, old branches bare, rough with persistent leaf bases, twigs short, stiff, thinly grey-felted, closely leafy. Leaves suberect to spreading, 5-8 x 2-3 mm, thickish, spathulate, much narrowed to the base, very shortly decurrent, apex mucronate, recurved, both surfaces grey-felted. Heads homogamous, turbinate-cylindric, ±4 x 2.5 mm, few in terminal corymbose clusters, often further aggregated. Involucral bracts in 6 series, graded, imbricate, inner slightly exceeding the flowers, lanceolate, acute, tips squarrose, some woolly hairs dorsally on shafts, outer golden sometimes tinged golden-brown, inner bright canary-yellow. Receptacle smooth or very shortly toothed. Flowers 7-11. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, tips barbellate, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.