Helichrysum lepidissimum S.Moore

Dense twiggy shrublet 100-600 mm high, lower branches often decumbent, rooting, all closely leafy, the younger parts loosely greyish-white woolly. Leaves mostly 7-30 x 3-15 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, usually broadly elliptic, rarely suborbicular, apex subacute to obtuse or rounded, mucronate, abruptly contracted to a flat petiolar part roughly 1/4 to 1/2 the total leaf length, base auriculate in larger leaves, margins more or less crisped, lightly and loosely greyish-white woolly above, wool glabrescent to reveal long coarse shaggy hairs, greyish-white woolly-felted below. Heads homogamous, campanulate, 4-6 x 3-5 mm, double that across the fully radiating bracts, few to many in corymbose clusters terminating the branchlets. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, outer acute, inner more or less obtuse, crisped, glossy, white, creamy or pale straw-coloured. Receptacle with fimbrils at least equalling ovaries. Flowers 10-30, yellow. Achenes 1 mm, barrel-shaped, obscurely ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia. Flowering mainly from April to August, but flowers can be found in any month.