Senecio helichrysoides

Erect annual to 0.5 m high; stems densely wooly. Leaves pseudopetiolate becoming sessile upwards, attenuate at base, 6–8 cm long, to 3 cm wide, densely woolly; mid-stem leaves narrow to very narrow-elliptic, entire or lobate; upper leaves linear. Inflorescence corymbose, with c. 20 capitula; capitula non-radiate; involucre cylindric, c. 6 mm long, woolly; bracts 12–14; bracteoles present; florets c. 40, all bisexual. Cypselas glabrous (according to protologue; not seen); pappus of slender hairs, c. 6 mm long, deciduous. Flowers summer