Helichrysum stenopterum Dc.

Perennial herb becoming woody at the base, 0.3–1 m high, with scandent or straggling branches to 2 m; many-stemmed, the stems grey-lanate but glabrescent, glandular, strongly aromatic (of pig manure?), with continuous wings 1–2 mm wide.. Leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 1–12 cm long, 0.2–1.8 cm wide, base narrowing gradually into decurrent stem wings, margins revolute, apex acute, arachnoid-pubescent above but glabrescent, white-or grey-felted beneath, glabrescent in older leaves, glandular; 1–3-veined.. Capitula heterogamous, 2.5–3.5 mm long, many together in congested clusters combining to form large terminal corymbose or paniculate inflorescences to 12 cm across; stalks of individual capitula absent; receptacle alveolate, fimbrillate; phyllaries in 2–5 series, lanceolate, imbricate, equalling the florets, the outer pale brown or translucent, the inner distally pale yellow, 1–2.5 mm long, obtuse, the outermost pubescent at base, otherwise glabrous, the inner often with a patch of glands halfway.. Outer florets 3–7, tube filiform to cylindrical and slightly widening just below the lobes, 1.2–1.5 mm long, lobes 0.1–0.3 mm long, style 1.5–2 mm long; inner florets 0–2(–3), tube cylindrical or narrowly infundibuliform, 1.6–2 mm long, lobes 0.2–0.3 mm long, anthers 0.8–1 mm long, style 1.9–2.2 mm long.. Achenes ellipsoid, 0.4–0.6 mm long, minutely papillose; pappus white, 1.5–2.5 mm long, coherent at base.

It is a subtropical plant.