Helichrysum amorginum, Boiss. & Orph.

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1. H. amorginum Boiss. & Orph. in Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Or. Nov. 3(5): 110 (1856).

Perennial 10-30 cm. Stems white-tomentose, erect or ascending from the branched woody stock. Leaves white-tomentose, flat, or the uppermost with revolute margins; lower 20-40 mm, crowded, oblong-spathulate; upper distant, smaller, linear, subsessile, suberect or arcuate. Inflorescence 3-5 cm across, compact; involucre 10-15 mm in diameter; bracts white, ovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, laxly imbricate. Cliffs. • Kikladhes (Amorgos). Gr.

H. taenari Rothm. , Bot. Jahrb. 73: 443 (1944), described from near the southernmost point of Greece (Akr. Tainaron), is like 1 but has narrower leaves which are sparsely liairy and dark green and smaller capitula. It is probably not specifically distinct.