A small , greyish perennial herb or subshrub ; up to 25-30 cm high . Stems erect , branched , spreading , slender , white-tomentose to glabrescent , usually crowded leafy basally . Leaves alternate , up to 3 x 1 cm , spatulate to elliptic or linear , edges curled inwards , usually densely white-tomentose , pale grey , concentrated at the base of the plant . Inflorescences tight clusters of 10-20 capitula at the end of the flowering stems , surrounded by white bracts . Flowers white or pale yellow , never open fully ; outer flowers filiform , pistillate ; inner flowers tubular , perfect . Fruit achenes , 0 . 5-1 mm long , brown with glands and tufts of hair on the top . Seeds pappus , of caducous , white bristles in one row , 2 . 5-3 mm long . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 3) .
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Common
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Achyrocline glumacea Oliv. & Hiern
Gnaphalium glumaceum Sch.Bip.
Gnaphalium makranicum Rech.f. & Esfand.
Helichrysum luzuloides (Sch.Bip.) Lanza
Helichrysum makranicum (Rech.f. & Esfand.) Rech.f.
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Not used traditionally. However, the well-known bird Bulbul, Pycnonotus sp., known collect the thin stems to make it’s nest (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*Ghazanfar, S. (2015). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.3: Loganiaceae – Asteraceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 9789082352511 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://casabio.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *Patzelt, A. (2015). Photographic Field Guide to the Plants of the Western Hajar Mountains, Sultanate of Oman: with a complete checklist of vascular plant species. Sultan Qaboos University – Academic Publication and Outreach Department. P.O Pox (17) Postal Code (123), Muscat, Al khoudh, Sultanate of Oman. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
