Helichrysum stoloniferum (L.F.) Willd.

Subshrub, main stems up to ±300 mm long, branched, prostrate or diffuse, flowering branchlets ascending, all closely leafy throughout. Leaves imbricate, those on sterile shoots mostly 7-15 x 2-6 mm, subequal, narrowly obovate, lower part appressed, webbed to stem, upper part ascending or spreading, often somewhat recurved, tip acute, apiculate, hooked, leaves on flowering twigs often much narrower, ±1.5-3 mm broad, somewhat spreading or strongly appressed, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, acute or subacute, uppermost often tipped with papery brown scales, all leaves wholly enveloped in silvery, silky 'tissue-paper' indumentum. Heads heterogamous, turbinate-campanulate, mostly 15-20 mm long, nearly double that across the radiating bracts, solitary at tips of branchlets in upper leaf axils, these branches peduncle-like when leaves much reduced and appressed. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, loosely imbricate, graded, inner much exceeding flowers, linear-lanceolate, mostly subacute, sometimes acute, glossy white or pale to deep rose, or white tipped rose, outer ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse to acuminate, golden-brown sometimes tinged rose. Receptacle very shortly honeycombed. Flowers 58-282, 6-24 female, 52-243 homogamous. Achenes 1 mm long, cylindric, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, tips subplumose, shaft scabrid, bases lightly fused.