Helichrysum longifolium Dc.

Perennial herb, stock stout, woody, flowering stems several from the crown, simple, erect to ±450 mm, thinly greyish-white felted, leafy throughout. Radical leaves rosetted, ±(70-)100-250 x 7-20(-40) mm, linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, apex more or less acute, often apiculate, base broad, clasping, upper surface cobwebby at first, generally glabrous or occasionally with scattered coarse hairs later, lower greyish-white felted, often silky; cauline leaves much smaller, diminishing in size upwards, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, uppermost with a small scarious appendage, base half-clasping, very shortly decurrent, both surfaces cobwebby or thinly felted, upper at least usually glabrescent. Heads homogamous, campanulate, 7-9(-11) mm long, several in a congested or open corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ±6-8 series, more or less graded, loosely imbricate, inner exceeding flowers, radiating, glossy, bright yellow, all acute or subacute. Receptacle with fimbrils much exceeding the ovaries. Flowers 53-154, yellow. Achenes 1 mm long, barrel-shaped, obscurely 5-ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling the corolla, scabrid, tips barbellate, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia. Flowers between July and February, but mainly in November, December and January.