Senecio macrocarpus

Erect or sprawling subshrub with stems to c. 70 cm high arising from a perennial rootstock, usually greyish-cobwebbed all over. Leaves sessile or pseudopetiolate, sometimes shortly auriculate, linear, 4–12 cm long, 2–5(–10) mm wide, entire to distantly and minutely dentate (rarely prominently toothed or shallowly and distantly lobed); upper surface sometimes minutely hispid as well as cobwebbed; lower surface usually more densely cobwebbed than upper. Inflorescence cymose or corymbose, usually with c. 2–10 capitula; capitula non-radiate; involucre plumply cylindric, 10–18 mm long, glabrous, or slightly cobwebbed near base; bracts 16–21(–33); bracteoles present; florets 50–150, bisexual and unisexual. Cypselas cylindric but long-tapered toward apex, 4.5–6 mm long, brown, densely papillose-hairy in rows; pappus of slender hairs 8–10 mm long, deciduous. Flowers Aug.–Oct.