Helichrysum simillimum Dc.

Perennial herb, rootstock slender, creeping, branching, stems slender, tufted, simple or branching mostly near the base, erect to ±400 mm, thinly grey woolly-felted, closely leafy. Leaves imbricate, up to ±17 x 5 mm, scarcely decreasing in size upwards, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base cordate-clasping, shortly decurrent, both surfaces grey woolly-felted. Heads heterogamous, oblong-campanulate, ±3-4 x 2-3 mm, many in compact corymbose panicles up to ±40 mm across terminating the branches. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, graded, closely imbricate, inner about equalling flowers, tips opaque, pale yellow or rarely whitish, crisped, more or less squarrose. Receptacle with fimbrils exceeding the ovaries. Flowers 15-27, 5-9 female, 10-18 homogamous. Achenes less than 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.