Helichrysum orientale, (L.) Gaertner

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11. H. orientale (L.) Gaertner , Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 404 (1791).

Perennial 12-30 cm. Stems erect or ascending from the branched woody stock, densely lanate. Leaves densely white-lanate; basal 20-60 mm, usually crowded, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, narrowed into the long petiole; upper shorter and narrower. Inflorescence 2-8 cm across; involucre 7-10 mm in diameter, hemispherical, shining yellow; inner bracts at least 3 times as long as the outer, linear-spathulate, the outer ovate-orbicular, glabrous. Lowland cliffs. Greece and Aegean region. Cr Gr [Rm],

H. zivojinii Černjavski & Soška , Feddes Repert. 49: 282 (1940), is intermediate between 11 and 12 and has greyish-whitetomentose, sparsely glandular stems and leaves, the lower leaves c. 70 x 6 mm, narrowly spathulate-lanceolate, and subglobose capitula 7-8 mm in diameter. It occurs on calcareous cliffs at 1000-1700 m in S. Jugoslavia (S. of Ohrid).