Genus: Helichrisum
Genus description:
Herbs or dwarf shrubs, often lanate or tomentose. Leaves alternate, simple, entire. Capitula small to medium, solitary or aggregated into compount corymbs. Involcre cylindrical-campanulate to hemispherical; involucral bracts numerous, imbricate, scarious, white or coloured ar least distally. Florets yellow, all tubular, the outer usually female, the inner hermaphrodite, more numerous; rarely all hermaphrodite. Papus os scabrid or shortly plumose hairs.The distinction from Gnaphalium, in which female florets outnumber teh hermaphrodite, is not clear-cut.
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