Perennial herbs, stems much branched, spreading, ashy grey, closely leafy
Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, margins entire, strongly revolute, white-cottony (hair type B), contrasting strongly with silky grey upper leaf surface and midrib below, giving striped effect to leaves
Capitula disciform, narrowly campanulate, few clustered at branchlet tips
Involucral bracts in ± 4 rows, outer short, pellucid, palest brown; inner with tips opaque milk-white, exceeding flowers; stereome undivided
Receptacle honeycombed, flat, epaleate
Flowers yellow, ± 45-65, 30-50 female, corolla filiform; 12 or 13 bisexual, corolla cylindric, all lobes glandular-hairy on backs
Anthers ecalcarate, caudate, tails exceeding filament collar; with small obtuse apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised
Style branches truncate and penicillate with obtuse sweeping hairs apically
Cypselas oblong, small, with minute 2-celled globular hairs without swelling cushion, myxogenic
Pappus bristles many, tips plumose, shaft nude, 2 or 3 bristles fused together near base and then, a little lower, these compound bristles fused into smooth ring
Nomenclature:
Helichrysopsis Kirp.
Kirpicznikov: 32 (1950)~(Page number suspect - No access to the publication)
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1991. Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104
ANDERBERG, A.A. 1994. Tribes Inuleae, Plucheeae, Gnaphalieae. In K. Bremer, Asteraceae, cladistics and classification. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon
HILLIARD, O.M. 1983. Asteraceae (Compositae), Tribe Inuleae subtribe Gnaphaliinae (first part). Flora of southern Africa 33, 7, 2
HILLIARD, O.M. & BURTT, B.L. 1981. Some generic concepts in Compositae - Gnaphaliinae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 82
KIRPICZNIKOV, M.E. 1950. Pseudognaphalium. Trudy Botaniceskogo instituta Akademii nauk SSSR. Ser. 1. Flora i sistematika vysših rastenij 9
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