| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Helichrysum obtusum Moeser trib. Gnaphalieae |
| Bibliography | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 44: 297 (1910) |
| Native Range | Cape Prov. to Namibia and Free State |
| Primary Biome | Subtropical |
| Habitat | sandy grassland |
| Altitude | 200-1200m |
| Description | branchlets interlaced, white sericeous-lanate, leaves 4-10mm, broadly elliptic, semiamplexicaule, acute, curvate, white lanate-tomentose, capitula 1-3, terminal |
| Size | 5-15cm |
| Color | golden-brown, whitish |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | shrub |
| Cultivation | sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-20°C cuttings in late summer |
| Territory | 2 Africa 27 Southern Africa (CPP Cape Provinces, NAM Namibia, OFS Free State) |