Helichrysum plumeum Allan
Ascending to erect, much-branched shrub up to 60 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, 2-4 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs usually yellow-, rarely white-tomentose on both surfaces, finally partly glabrous on lower, apetiolate, ovate to ovate-oblong, involute, obtuse, slightly cucullate, 2-2.5-(4) × 1-1.5 mm. Capitula 3-5-(6) mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts tomentose on lamina, oblong, obtuse to acute, slightly radiating, membranous, with opaque stereome, 3-5 mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes with short appressed hairs, cylindric to obovoid, angled or compressed, 1.2-1.5 mm long.
S.: montane to subalpine S. Canterbury.
Endemic.
Open rocky places.
