Helichrysum helianthemifolium D.Don ex G.Don

Diffuse herb up to 1 m high. Stems long, thin, woody, brittle, thinly greyish-white woolly, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 10-20 x 3-5 mm, smaller upwards, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, spreading or later deflexed, apex subacute to very acute, mucronate, base broad, subcordate-clasping, margins often somewhat reflexed, crisped or not, both surfaces thinly greyish-white woolly, upper sometimes more or less glabrescent. Heads heterogamous, ±2.5 x 2 mm, cylindric, base slightly woolly, many in compact terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 4 series, graded, imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, oblong, silvery pellucid, tips rounded, opaque milk-white, crisped, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils exceeding the ovaries. Flowers 12-21, 3-7 female, 8-14 homogamous. Achenes 0.5 mm long, cylindric, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia.