Helichrysum outeniquense Hilliard

Perennial herb or subshrub, branching from the base, stems ±250 mm tall, thinly greyish-white woolly, leafy, becoming pedunculoid and nude near the heads. Leaves mostly 10-25 x 5-7 mm, elliptic-oblong becoming lanceolate towards the heads and passing rapidly into a few distant bracts, apex obtuse becoming acute in the uppermost leaves, base broad, half-clasping, both surfaces greyish-white woolly, glandular-setose as well. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 3 mm, 5 mm across the radiating bracts, many in small corymbose clusters arranged in a compact corymbose-panicle. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, outermost short, pale fuscous, others subequal, scarcely exceeding the flowers, tips obtuse, opaque white, slightly crisped. Receptacle with short fimbrils. Flowers ±20-25. Achenes not seen, ovaries with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips barbellate, shaft scabrid, bases with patent cilia cohering strongly.