Helichrysum petiolare Hilliard & B.L.Burtt

A straggling, loosely branched, soft-wooded shrub forming tangled masses several metres across and as high when supported by other vegetation, branches long, slender, thinly grey-woolly, leafy becoming pedunculoid and distantly bracteate below the inflorescences. Leaf blades mostly 10-35 x 10-30 mm, subrotund to broadly ovate or elliptic-rhomboid, apex rounded, base truncate, subcordate or cuneate, both surfaces grey-woolly-felted, upper sometimes only cobwebby, petiole up to 10 mm, flat, sometimes winged, base auriculate. Heads homogamous, subglobose opening broadly campanulate, ±5 x 5 mm, many in loose terminal corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, loosely imbricate, about equalling the flowers, radiating, backs loosely grey-woolly above stereome, tips rounded, concave, opaque milk-white. Receptacle with fimbrils equalling or exceeding ovary. Flowers 18-30, yellow, sweetly scented. Achenes 1 mm long, barrel-shaped, 5-ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, about equalling corolla, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia, lightly fused as well.

Can be grown by cuttings.