Helichrysum mimetes S.Moore

Shrublet up to ±600 mm high, branches thinly greyish-white tomentose, leafy. Leaves on coppice shoots and sappy growth ovate to subrotund, tapering to a petiole-like base, blade mostly 25-35 x 20-30 mm, apex very obtuse or rounded, mucronate, petiolar part ±10-20 mm long, leaves on twigs often smaller, blade elliptic-ovate, ovate or subrotund, mostly 13-24 x 13-18 mm, becoming smaller and more distant upwards, petiolar part ±6-10 mm long, base slightly expanded, half-clasping, upper surface of all leaves thinly grey-tomentose and glandular-puberulous beneath the wool, lower more densely tomentose. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±4-5 x 4-5 mm, ±8 mm across the radiating bracts, many in corymbose clusters arranged in corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, imbricate, inner slightly exceeding flowers, acute to obtuse, crisped, straw-coloured. Receptacle with fimbrils about equalling the ovaries. Flowers 16-24. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia.