Helichrysum tysonii Hilliard

Annual herb forming small dense mats up to ±200 mm across, stems many from the crown, well branched, prostrate, rooting, branchlets grey-tomentose, leafy. Leaves 4-10 x 1.5-6 mm, narrowly to broadly spathulate, tips rounded, extreme tip folded and slightly recurved, base broad, clasping, margins flat, both surfaces grey-woolly. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, campanulate, ±4 x 2 mm, many crowded in small terminal glomerules, closely surrounded by leaves, the innermost leaves webbed to the outer involucral bracts. Involucral bracts in ±3 series, outermost short, inner subequal, slightly exceeding flowers, tips very acute, slightly recurved, opaque straw-coloured or reddish. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 19-32, 0-3 female, 19-31 homogamous. Achenes 0.75 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases scarcely cohering by patent cilia.