Helichrysum hamulosum Dc.

Well-branched ericoid shrublet up to 600 mm tall, old branches nude, rough with old leaf bases, branchlets white-tomentose, closely leafy. Leaves suberect, imbricate, 6-25 x 1 mm, linear, apex acute, mucronate, hooked, base broad, sessile, margins strongly revolute, upper surface glabrous or with a few woolly hairs, lower white-tomentose. Heads homogamous, cylindric, ±6-7 x 2 mm, many in dense terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 5-6 series, graded, imbricate, a little shorter than the flowers, ovate-lanceolate, acute or subacute, straw-coloured, glossy, erect. Receptacle with fimbrils up to half as long as ovaries. Flowers 5-14. Achenes 1 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, nearly equalling corolla, scabrid, bases nude, not cohering.