Helichrysum tricostatum Less.

Shrub or subshrub up to 1.5 m tall, branches long, slender, young parts thinly white-woolly, leafy. Leaves mostly 15-30 x 5-8 mm, reduced and more distant upwards, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, linear-lanceolate upwards, apex acute, mucronate, base narrowed, minutely petiolate, margins subrevolute, both surfaces thinly greyish-white woolly, Heads homogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 3 mm, woolly at base, many in terminal compact corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts in 5 series, imbricate, graded, inner about equalling flowers, oblong, translucent, tips rounded, subopaque, convex, glossy, straw-coloured, not radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils equalling or exceeding ovaries. Flowers 18-26. Achenes 1 mm long, cylindric, obscurely angled, glabrous. Pappus bristles many, about equalling corolla, scabrid, barbellate above, bases cohering lightly by patent cilia.