Helichrysum revolutum Less.

Bushy half-shrub up to 2 m tall, stems woody, young ones thinly greyish-white woolly, closely leafy. Leaves often with axillary tufts of reduced leaves, main stem leaves 10-40 x 1-5 mm, diminishing slightly upwards, erect or spreading, linear, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, apex acute, mucronate, base somewhat eared, slightly decurrent, margins revolute, upper surface thinly greyish-white woolly, often glabrescent, irregularly wrinkled, often tuberculate, lower persistently greyish-white woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, ±4.5-5 x 4 mm, few to many in terminal compact corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 4-5 series, imbricate, graded, inner equalling flowers, oblong, tips rounded, not radiating, pellucid, glossy, pale to deep straw-coloured. Receptacle shortly toothed. Flowers 20-37, (1-)3-8 female, 17-32 homogamous. Achenes 1 mm, barrel-shaped, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, barbellate, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.