Helichrysum marifolium Dc.

Perennial herb, stems diffuse, probably trailing, branched, grey woolly-felted, closely leafy except near the heads. Leaves spreading or reflexed, mostly 5-7(-12) x 2.5-4(-6) mm, diminishing in size and more distant near the heads, narrowly ovate, apex subacute, mucronate, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces greyish-white woolly-felted. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±4-5 x 4 mm, up to ±12 in congested, rounded terminal clusters. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, graded, imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, not radiating, lanceolate to oblong, straw-coloured, tips acute to obtuse, often dark, whole bract densely villous dorsally. Receptacle smooth. Flowers 15-20, 5 female, 10-15 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries with duplex hairs, not mucilaginous when wet. Pappus bristles many, shaft barbellate, becoming shortly plumose upwards, bases cohering by patent cilia.