| Family | ASTERACEAE |
| Genus species | Helichrysum teretifolium (L.) Sweet trib. Gnaphalieae |
| Bibliography | Hort. Brit.: 223 (1826) |
| Native Range | Cape Prov. to KwaZulu-Natal |
| Primary Biome | Subtropical |
| Habitat | sandy grassland |
| Altitude | 5-1600m |
| Description | leaves sessile, linear, rigid, mucronate, margins revolute, adaxially glabrescent, abaxially tomentose, capitula numerous, subsessile, in corymb, involucre spherical |
| Size | 10-30cm |
| Color | brownish red |
| Bloom | late spring, 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 |
| Synonyms | Eclopes tenuifolia Steud. Evax ericoides (Lam.) Schrank Gnaphalium ericoides Lam. Gnaphalium heterophyllum Thunb. Gnaphalium pumilum Willd. Gnaphalium scoparium Schrank Gnaphalium stoechas Burm.f. Gnaphalium tephrodes Link Gnaphalium teretifolium L. Gnaphalium umbellatum Willd. Helichrysum tephrodes (Link) Sweet |
| Territory | 2 Africa 27 Southern Africa (CPP Cape Provinces, NAT KwaZulu-Natal) |