Helichrysum felinum Less.

Stout perennial herb up to ±1 m tall, stem woody, up to 5 mm diam., simple below, subsimple or branched above, branches erect, rod-like, rough with leaf scars below, loosely greyish-white woolly and densely leafy above. Leaves spreading or deflexed, up to 35(-50) x 8(-12) mm, sometimes smaller and distant upwards, lanceolate to elliptic, apex more or less acute, mucronate, bases broad, clasping, upper surface cobwebby at first, later harshly pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, generally rugose, lower grey woolly-felted. Heads homogamous, subglobose, 5-7 mm long, 7-10 mm across the fully radiating bracts, many in dense, rounded corymbose clusters ±20-40 mm across, sometimes more open or becoming so with age. Involucral bracts in ±8-12 series, subequal, loosely imbricate, about equalling the flowers, milk-white, or tinged rose-pink, often crisped, radiating. Receptacle shallowly honeycombed or shortly toothed. Flowers 38-103, yellow. Achenes not seen, ovaries with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, tips barbellate, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.