Helichrysum saxicola Hilliard

Cushion-forming dwarf shrublet 30-50 mm high, old main stem up to ±5 mm diam., gnarled, main branches prostrate, rooting, giving rise to innumerable tightly congested erect or ascending branchlets, closely leafy throughout. Leaves closely imbricate, 1-3 x 0.75-1.5 mm, elliptic, obtuse, base broad, clasping, both surfaces thickly greyish-white woolly-felted. Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±5 x 4 mm, 7 mm across the radiating bracts, solitary, sessile at the branchlet tips. Involucral bracts in 5 series, graded, loosely imbricate, outer obtuse, whitish, webbed together with wool, tips of inner exceeding flowers, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, opaque snow-white. Receptacle with flattened tubercles. Flowers ±22-24, yellow, the outermost tipped red. Achenes 1.25 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips barbellate, shaft scabrid, bases not cohering.