Helichrysum gariepinum Dc.

Herbaceous, taproot woody stems several to many from the crown, 200-300 mm long, prostrate or decumbent, simple or branched, wiry, white cobwebby-woolly, often glabrescent, leafy. Leaves ±7-20 x 3-12 mm, scarcely diminishing upwards, thin, spathulate or obovate to elliptic, much narrowed to the base, subpetiolate, apex obtuse, apiculate, both surfaces white cobwebby-woolly, often glabrescent. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, mostly ±6-7 x 5-6 mm, ±10 mm across the radiating bracts, solitary or up to 8 clustered at the branch tips, shortly pedunculate, closely surrounded by leaves. Involucral bracts in ±3-5 series, surrounded by green lanceolate bracts webbed together with wool, sub-equal, loosely imbricate, exceeding the flowers, pellucid, silvery, tips radiating, subopaque, obtuse to acute, mostly white, outermost sometimes tinged pale golden-brown, inner sometimes rosy to crimson, fading to white. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 40-99, (1-)3-8 female, 36-91 homogamous, yellow, tipped pink. Achenes 0.75 mm with myxogenic duplex hairs or sometimes glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia. Flowers between May and October, mainly August and September.