Helichrysum lingulatum Hilliard

Mat-forming perennial herb with many crowded leaf rosettes from woody well-branched underground stems up to 10 mm diam., flowering stems terminal to each rosette, solitary, up to 180 mm tall, grey-woolly, leafy. Radical leaves up to 35 x 8 mm, lingulate, apex rounded, both surfaces closely grey-woolly; cauline leaves mostly narrowly elliptic, tipped with a white scarious bract. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, campanulate, ±20 mm long, nearly double that across the radiating bracts, solitary. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, graded, loosely imbricate, much exceeding the flowers, glossy, tinged delicate pink initially, fading to white, crimson blotch inside near base. Receptacle shortly honeycombed. Flowers 152-180, 0-12 female, 152-170 homogamous. Achenes 1.5 mm, barrel-shaped, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, tips barbellate, bases cohering by patent cilia, some fusion in bundles as well.