Senecio bathurstianus

Erect annual to 1.5 m high; stems ± densely coarse-hairy, density reducing upwards, rarely ± glabrous. Leaves sessile, auriculate, with remotely denticulate or dentate margins, coarse-hairy; lower surface green or tinged purple, sometimes with cobwebby overlay; mid-stem leaves pinnatisect to subpinnatisect, broad-elliptic to elliptic in outline, 7–15 cm long, 1–5.5 cm wide; upper leaves pinnatisect or sometimes linear. Inflorescence corymbose, typically with c. 50–200 capitula; capitula non-radiate; involucre plumply cylindric or narrowly campanulate (same width as height), 3.5–6.0(–7.0) mm long, glabrous; bracts (9–)11–13; bracteoles present; florets 20–35, bisexual and female. Cypselas cylindric, 1.5–2.0 mm long, red-brown or blackish, papillose-hairy in lines or ± scattered; pappus of slender hairs, 4–5 mm long, deciduous. Flowers mostly Oct.–Dec.