Helichrysum hebelepis Dc.

Subshrub up to 1.5 m tall, branches long, slender, young parts thinly greyish-white woolly, closely leafy, leaves becoming distant upwards. Leaves mostly 20-40 x 2.5-10 mm, reduced upwards, linear, linear-lanceolate or elliptic, sessile, apex subacute to acute, acuminate in uppermost leaves, mucronate, margins subrevolute, undulate in upper leaves, both surfaces thinly greyish-white woolly. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, turbinate-campanulate, ±4 x 3 mm, many in dense globose terminal cymose corymbs. Involucral bracts in 6 series, imbricate, graded, reaching cylindric part of corolla, minutely radiating, lanceolate becoming oblong-lanceolate inwards, acute to obtuse, backs woolly, tips glabrous, subopaque, deep straw-yellow sometimes tinged light golden brown. Receptacle smooth. Flowers 19-32, 0-5 female (staminodes often present), 15-32 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries with duplex hairs, not myxogenic. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia. Flowering between July and October, mainly in August and September.