Helichrysum fourcadei Hilliard

Twiggy shrub, height unknown, but probably dwarf, branchlets rigid, closely appressed silvery-grey woolly, leafy. Leaves 3-9 x 1-3 mm, spathulate, apex obtuse, uppermost small leaves subacute, mucronate, recurved, base much narrowed, very shortly decurrent, webbed to the stems, both surfaces silvery-grey felted with a papery surface. Heads homogamous, turbinate-cylindric, ±6 x 4 mm, solitary or 2-3 loosely arranged at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts in ±8 series, graded, imbricate, backs woolly, reddish above the stereome, tips reddish brown, obtuse or subacute, squarrose. Receptacle more or less smooth. Flowers ±20-24. Achenes not seen, ovaries with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, tips barbellate, bases probably cohering strongly by patent cilia.