Helichrysum plebeium Dc.

Shrublet, to ±450 mm, branches virgate, young parts greyish-white woolly-felted, leafy. Leaves mostly 10-20 x 1-2 mm, reduced and more distant on flowering twigs, linear to linear-oblong, apex acute, mucronate, base slightly narrowed, half-clasping, margins revolute, both surfaces greyish-white woolly, often becoming cobwebby above. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 2-3 mm, many in compact rounded terminal clusters up to 20 mm across. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, imbricate, graded, inner about equalling flowers, oblong, backs loosely silky-woolly, tips broad, rounded, pellucid, tawny, minutely radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils much exceeding ovaries. Flowers 12-18, 1-3 female, 9-15 homogamous. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, barbellate above, bases cohering by patent cilia.