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|accepted_name=Helichrysum
|accepted_authority=Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. abr. ed.
|place=4, vol. 2. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Helichrysum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Helichrysum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek helios, sun, and chrysos, gold, and helichrysos, Greek name for a local species of Asteraceae
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 59, 384, 387
|treatment_page=page 425
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">[Annuals, biennials, perennials,] subshrubs, or shrubs (often aromatic), mostly 20–80 cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, usually erect, sometimes decumbent to procumbent (± woolly-tomentose, usually stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; petiolate [sessile]; blades ovate [spatulate to lanceolate or linear], bases cuneate to truncate [usually clasping and/or decurrent], margins entire (sometimes revolute), faces concolor [bicolor], usually gray to white and tomentose or sericeous [adaxial sometimes greenish and glabrescent], sometimes stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well. <b>Heads</b> disciform or discoid, in glomerules in corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 4–8 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–5[–7] series, whitish [stramineous, orange, reddish, or pinkish] (opaque or hyaline, usually shiny; stereomes green, usually sessile-glandular distally). <b>Receptacles</b> flat, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Peripheral</b> (pistillate) florets 0 or 1–2 (fewer than bisexual): corollas yellowish. <b>Inner</b> (bisexual) florets 3–30[–50+]; corollas usually yellowish. <b>Cypselae</b> ± columnar, faces usually smooth, sometimes papillate (roughened by raised, imbricate tips of epidermal cells), sometimes with 4–6 longitudinal ridges, glabrous [± strigose or myxogenic, papilliform hairs]; pappi readily falling, of 12–20 distinct or loosely coherent basally, barbellate [subplumose] bristles in 1 series. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=mostly Old World;especially s Africa and Madagascar.
|discussion=<p>Species about 600 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Helichrysum
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=mostly Old World;especially s Africa and Madagascar.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. abr. ed.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Helichrysum
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