Helichrysum sutherlandii Harv.

Well-branched shrub up to 400 mm tall, commonly lax, sometimes compact, vegetative twigs closely leafy, flowering twigs more distantly so. Leaves up to ±25 x 12 mm, rhomboid or elliptic, abruptly narrowed to a flat, petiole-like, clasping base up to ±12 mm long, apex more or less acute, upper surface thinly grey-woolly, lightly cobwebby or sometimes glabrous, lower surface white-felted, triplinerved, nerves nearly always prominent below. Heads homogamous, narrowly campanulate, 4-5 mm long, 5-7 mm across the radiating bracts, few to many in corymbose panicles ±20-120 mm across. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, graded, imbricate, outer pale brownish, webbed together with wool, inner much exceeding flowers, tips milk-white, opaque. Receptacle honeycombed. Flowers 9-25, yellow. Achenes 1-1.25 mm long, barrel-shaped, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases not cohering. Flowering begins in mid-February, is at its peak in April, and is fading by July.