- ≡ Helichrysum microphyllum (Hook.f.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Kirk, Gen. Pl. [Bentham & Hooker f.] 2(1), 311 (1873) nom. illeg., non Helichrysum microphyllum (Willd.) Cambess. 1827
- ≡ Ozothamnus microphyllus Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 134 (1852)
Ascending to erect, much-branched shrub, up to 50 cm tall; branchlets obscured by persistent, imbricate, appressed lvs and tomentum, 1–2 mm diam. (including lvs). Lvs glabrous on lower, outer surface, densely white-tomentose on upper, inner surface, apetiolate, narrow-oblong, spathulate or narrow-ovate, slightly involute, obtuse and slightly cucullate, 2–2.5 × 0.3–1 mm. Lvs of seedlings and reversion shoots spreading, densely tomentose on both surfaces. Capitula 4–8 mm diam., solitary, sessile. Middle involucral bracts glabrous, oblong, obtuse, not or slightly radiating, membranous, with pale and transparent lamina, and darker and opaque stereome, 3.5–5 mm long. Disc bright yellow. Achenes densely clothed in antrorse hairs, cylindric, slightly angled or compressed, 1.2–1.5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]