Microseris lanceolata

Perennial, 15–50 cm high; roots elongate, fleshy, cylindrical to long-tapered, branching just below ground-level, sometimes suckering. Leaves linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, mostly 5–20 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, entire to distantly acutely lobed. Capitula 30–50 mm diam.; peduncles to 50 cm long, much longer than leaves; involucral bracts ovate to narrow-lanceolate, 2–20 mm long, acute. Florets 10–30; ligules 15–25 mm long, much exceeding involucre. Cypselas mostly 5–7 mm long, straw-coloured, glabrous to minutely pubescent; pappus of 10–20 barbellate bristles, 8–13 mm long, widened to c. 0.3–0.5 mm at base. Flowers Dec.–Mar.