Helichrysum intricatum Dc.

Perennial herb with tufts of delicate wiry stems decumbent then erect, up to 600 mm long, virgate, glabrous below, white-woolly-felted above, leafy, becoming pedunculoid upwards. Leaves mostly 12-30 x 2.5-8 mm, diminishing upwards and passing into small distant bracts, oblong, oblong-spathulate or lanceolate, apex sub-acute or acute, mucronate, base cordate-clasping in larger leaves, margins slightly revolute, upper surface with coarse spreading hairs, cobwebby as well initially, lower surface white woolly-felted. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, campanulate, 4 x 2.5 mm, many felted at the base into terminal flat-topped glomerules 10-20 mm across, becoming somewhat looser with age. Involucral bracts in 4 series, graded, loosely imbricate, outermost pale brown or yellow, webbed together with wool, inner lemon-yellow, sub-pellucid, tips obtuse, about equalling flowers, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils about equalling or exceeding ovaries. Flowers 8-15, 0-3 female, 6-15 homogamous. Achenes 1 mm long, broadly cylindric, glabrous or with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia, some light fusion as well.