Pappochroma tasmanicum

Rhizomatous herb, forming solitary rosettes or occasionally dense colonies, to 15 cm high in fruit. Leaves spathulate or narrowly obovate, with or without long petiole-like base, 10–50 mm long, 3–9 mm wide, concave, glabrous, thick-textured, often purplish near base, entire or with a few callus-teeth; apex obtuse. Peduncle unbranched, with linear bracts, elongating slightly in fruit. Capitula turbinate; involucral bracts oblong, 3–6 mm long, glabrous, or minutely ciliate; ray florets 1–3-seriate, ligules white to purplish, 2–3.5 mm long, more or less erect, exceeding involucre by 1–2 mm. Peduncle elongating slightly in fruit. Cypselas flattened, oblong-elliptic, c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous; pappus bristles c. uniform, 2.5–3 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Feb.