Helichrysum leptorhizum Dc.

Delicate annual herb ±60 mm tall, stems several from the base, weakly erect, filiform, simple below, weakly branched above, thinly and loosely greyish-white woolly, glabrescent, distantly leafy. Leaves 5-15 x 2.5-4 mm, lower oblanceolate, much narrowed to the base, becoming spathulate to elliptic upwards, apex subacute to obtuse, apiculate, both surfaces thinly greyish white-woolly cobwebby. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±3 x 1.5-2 mm, 2 or 3 together on minute branchlets in the upper leaf axils and at the branchlet tips, shortly pedunculate. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, outer pale golden-brown, pellucid, inner about equalling flowers, brown flushed crimson, tips obtuse, more or less opaque whitish, not radiating. Receptacle scarcely honeycombed. Flowers ±19-22, 10-11 female, 9-11 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles about equalling corolla, scabrid, bases with minute patent cilia, not cohering.