Helichrysum versicolor O.Hoffm. & Muschl.

Annual herb, stems several from the base, up to 300 mm long, erect or decumbent, simple or sparingly branched, white-woolly, leafy. Leaves mostly 15-40 x 4-12 mm, diminishing upwards, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate becoming lanceolate upwards, apex subobtuse to acute, mucronate, base cordate-clasping, margins flat or crisped-undulate, both surfaces thinly greyish-white woolly. Heads heterogamous, campanulate, 3 x 2 mm, many in congested woolly clusters in compact corymbose panicles at the branch tips. Involucral bracts in ±6 series, loosely imbricate, backs white woolly, outermost short, others subequal, about equalling flowers, tips semi-pellucid or opaque, very obtuse, crisped, bright yellow, minutely radiating. Receptacle scarcely honeycombed. Flowers 12-30, 3-7 female, 9-23 homogamous. Achenes ±0.5 mm long, with myxogenic duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases not cohering. Flowering mostly in October and November, but as late as February.