Helichrysum jubilatum Hilliard

Annual herb, branching from the base, stems erect or decumbent, 100-250 mm long, loosely branched, thinly white-woolly, distantly leafy. Leaves mostly 8-30 x 5-15 mm, smallest under the heads, elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, mucronate, base half-clasping, both surfaces greyish-white woolly-cobwebby. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 3.5-4 x 2.5 mm, mostly crowded in terminal cymose panicles, subterminal heads sometimes solitary or 2-3 at the tips of nude branchlets up to 30 mm long. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, outer pellucid, pale straw-coloured, backs woolly, inner 2 series subequal, about equalling the flowers, tips obtuse, opaque snow-white, scarcely radiating. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers ±35-41, 10-14 female, 24-29 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long with myxogenic hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips scabrid, bases nude, not cohering.