Helichrysum moeserianum Thell.

Annual herb mostly 100-300 mm tall, stems erect, solitary or branched from the base, simple or sparingly branched above, greyish-white woolly, distantly leafy. Leaves mostly 15-30(-60) x 3-5(-13) mm, diminishing slightly upwards, oblong-spathulate becoming linear upwards, apex obtuse to acute, mucronate, base half-clasping, both surfaces greyish-white woolly. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, campanulate, 3-4 x 2-3 mm, many in terminal corymbose clusters, these often in corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, loosely imbricate, outer woolly on the backs, tips subacute or obtuse, inner about equalling or exceeding the flowers, tips opaque canary-yellow, minutely radiating, obtuse, well crisped or only slightly so. Receptacle scarcely honeycombed. Flowers 12-30, (0-)3-6 female, 12-27 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long, obscurely ribbed, with myxogenic duplex hairs or very rarely glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, tips barbellate, bases not cohering.