Compilation
Helichrysum nyasicum

Perennial herb, woody herb or shrublet, erect with scrambling branches to 3.6 m high, or the whole plant decumbent and straggling; stems grey-green, with flaking white-woolly pubescence. Leaves grey-green, white or silvery beneath, ovate or lanceolate, with a petiole 2–17 mm long, blade 2–12 cm long, 1–7 cm wide, base cuneate or attenuate (rarely subcordate and abruptly attenuate), margins crenate or less often dentate, apex acute or acuminate, arachnoid-pubescent but glabrescent above, tomentose beneath; sometimes strongly 3-veined from the base. Capitula 2–4 mm long, homo- or heterogamous, several together in dense clusters which in turn are grouped to several orders, forming dense corymbose or globose cymes terminating branches, the axes tomentose; stalks of individual capitula≤1 mm long; receptacle very narrow; phyllaries in few series, imbricate, silvery white or pale yellow or sometimes (especially inK3) with a pink or reddish tinge, the outer ovate, the inner lanceolate, 1.5–4 mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, acute, pubescent near the base. Florets pale yellow, 4–7; outer florets 0–2, tube filiform, 1.8–2.2 mm long, wider at base, minutely toothed and glandular distally, style 2.2–2.3 mm long; inner florets 3–5, tube cylindric, 2–2.5 mm long, 4-lobed with lobes 0.2–0.4 mm long and often glandular, anthers 0.7–1 mm long, style 2.1–2.5 mm long. Achenes oblong, 0.6–0.9 mm long, glabrous; pappus caducous, 2–3.5 mm long.