Lordhowea velleioides

Slender, erect, simple or few-branched, glabrous annual or short-lived perennial, 30–100(–160) cm high. Leaves sessile, the lower auriculate, oblanceolate or obovate, coarsely toothed to entire, becoming ovate to lanceolate, entire, with broadly stem-clasping (often overlapping) bases above, 3–14 cm long, 8–40 mm wide; upper surface dull green, somewhat waxy; lower surface grey-green, waxy. Inflorescence of c. 10–30 capitula; capitula radiate; involucre cup-shaped or campanulate, 6–10 mm long; bracts 12–16; bracteoles not immediately subtending involucre. Ray florets 6–9, yellow, ligules 8–15 mm long; disc florets c. 30–50, yellow. Cypselas cylindric, 2–3 mm long, with 8–10 prominent, alternately glabrous and hairy channels, brown to blackish; pappus of fine white barbellate hairs 3–4 mm long, deciduous Flowers Oct.–Mar.