Shrub to 2.5 m tall, aromatic, hairy. Stems erect, branched. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, to 8 cm long, to 12 mm wide, margins curved under, upper surface glabrous and glossy, lower surface white-felty, petiolate. Capitula in dense terminal corymbs, to 3 mm across, on stalks; spring to summer. Outer involucral bracts golden, woolly. Inner involucral bracts with a triangular white tip. Florets 10-12, all bisexual. [Helichrysum argophyllum (DC.) N.A.Wakef.]
SE Australia
O. ferrugineus (Labill.) Sweet, Tree Everlasting, from SE Australia is a large erect shrub or small tree with narrow leaves and white-tipped diskoid capitula to 4 mm across in dense terminal clusters [Helichrysum dendroideum N.A. Wakef.];
O. ledifolius (DC.) Hook. f., Kerosene Weed, from Tasmania is a medium shrub with narrow leaves and white-tipped diskiform capitula to 4 mm across in dense terminal clusters [Helichrysum ledifolium (DC.) Benth.];
O. rosmarinifolius (Labill.) Sweet from SE Australia is a large erect shrub with rough narrow leaves and white-tipped diskoid capitula to 3 mm across in dense terminal clusters [Helichrysum rosmarinifolium (Labill.) Benth.];
O. turbinatus DC. from SE Australia is a large erect shrub with narrow spreading leaves and white-tipped, diskoid capitula to 3 mm across in dense terminal clusters. [Helichrysum paralium (N.T. Burb.) W.M. Curtis]
Source: (2002). Dahlia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.