Helichrysum griseolanatum Hilliard

Well-branched subshrub forming mats up to 250 mm tall and 1 m across, old stems up to 8 mm diam., main branches becoming woody, bare, decumbent and rooting, ultimate branchlets greyish-white woolly, closely leafy at first, more distantly so at flowering. Leaves more or less imbricate, up to 15 x 6 mm, oblong, elliptic, or lanceolate-elliptic, apex obtuse or acute, base broad, half-clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces greyish-white woolly. Heads homogamous, cylindric, ±3.5 x 1 mm, very many felted together at the base in dense cymose clusters disposed in compact, flattish corymbs terminating the branches. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, graded, closely imbricate, about equalling flowers, pellucid, not radiating, canary-yellow. Receptacle smooth. Flowers 3-5, yellow. Achenes 0.75 mm, with duplex hairs. Pappus wanting.