Helichrysum swynnertonii S.Moore

Mat-forming perennial herb or subshrub, stock creeping, becoming very stout and woody, stems many, branching only below, ascending, ±100-150 mm long, closely leafy, flowering stems solitary, terminal, one-headed, leafy below, bracteate upwards, grey-felted. Leaves up to 80 x 10 mm, more or less erect, lanceolate-elliptic, apex acute, base slightly narrowed, half-clasping, webbed to the stems by loosely interwoven stringy-woolly hairs, both surfaces and margins enveloped in similar loosely-woven grey stringy-woolly felt underlain by patent glandular hairs, margins slightly involute. Heads homogamous, broadly campanulate, ±13-18 mm long, solitary at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in ±10 series, graded, loosely imbricate, about equalling the flowers, acute, radiating, glossy white with a faint yellowish or brownish overcast. Receptacle with flattened tubercles. Flowers 129-201, yellow. Achenes ±1.5 mm, barrel-shaped, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases cohering strongly by patent cilia.