Helichrysum polycladum Klatt

Bushy herb forming thick rounded clumps up to 1 m tall and as much across. Stems long, thin, sometimes tangled, woody, brittle, thinly greyish-white woolly, gland-dotted, closely leafy. Leaves mostly 7-22 x 1(-2) mm or less, diminishing slightly upwards, linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate, mucronate, base broad, somewhat eared, margins revolute, upper surface more or less loosely white-woolly, often glabrescent, lower persistently loosely white-woolly, gland-dotted. Heads heterogamous, ±3 x 1.5 mm, cylindric, some woolly hairs at base, many in compact corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 5 series, imbricate, graded, inner about equalling flowers, oblong-lanceolate, pellucid, tips subacute, opaque, dirty white, crisped, radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils much exceeding the ovaries. Flowers 9-15, 6-10 female, 1-5 homogamous. Achenes 0.5 mm, cylindric, obscurely ribbed, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabridulous, bases cohering by patent cilia.