Helichrysum umbraculigerum Less.

Tufted perennial herb, stems often decumbent and rooting, then erect to ±1m, young parts thinly grey-woolly, leafy. Leaves mostly 20-80 x 3-25 mm, becoming smaller upwards and passing into bracts, very variable in shape, ranging from linear-lanceolate to elliptic and tapering at both ends; or lanceolate-or oblong-spathulate to spathulate, acute or subacute, base slightly to much narrowed and ear-clasping; or ovate, elliptic-ovate to rhomboid-ovate and rather abruptly narrowed to a petiole-like ear-clasping base; upper surface with stout or delicate glandular hairs, erect or appressed, mostly cobwebby or thinly to thickly greyish white-woolly as well, lower surface often thickly greyish white woolly, or wool sometimes thin or wanting. Heads homogamous, cylindric, ±3 x 1 mm, very many crowded and webbed together with wool forming a flattened, umbrella-like disc, the flattened branches of the cymose inflorescence visible through the wool. Involucral bracts biseriate, subequal, loosely imbricate, about equalling the flowers, not radiating, pellucid, canary-yellow, outer often golden-brown. Receptacle nearly smooth. Flowers 3-4(-6), yellow. Achenes 0.5-0.75 mm long, barrel-shaped, with duplex hairs. Pappus bristles 0-7, shorter than corolla, scabrid, bases not cohering.