Helichrysum buddleioides
DC. in Wight, Contrib. Bot. Ind. 20. 1834;
Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 3: 290. 1881.
Shrubs or undershrubs, up to 4 m tall, sometimes scrambling; stems greyish
white floccose tomentose. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceoate, base
subamplexicaul, acute-acuminate or obtuse and sometimes hooked at apex,
margins recurved, 1 - 7 x 0.5 - 2 cm, upper surface glabrous or sparsely floccose
hairy, lower surface with dense white or cinnamomeus-cottony tomentum, 3 - 7
nerved. Heads forming dense, terminal corymbs, in globose clusters, 2 - 2.5 mm
across; peduncle very small, 0.2 - 1 mm long, densely woolly tomentose.
Involucral bracts yellow-pale yellow, 4-many-seriate, enveloped in woolly
tomentum; outer obovate, brown at base; inner oblanceolate, brown at basal
end. Ray florets female, with filiform corolla, 1 - 2.5 mm long, obscurely or 4
toothed. nisc florets bisexual, with corolla 1 - 2 mm long, 5-toothed. Achenes ca
0.3 mm long. Pappus hairs white.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, thick, apex acuminate, hooked; nerves impressed | 2.1. buddleioides |
| b. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, thin. apex obtuse-acute nerves not impressed | 2.2. hookerianum |
