Calotis lappulacea

Slender, erect or straggling, much-branched perennial, 20–50 cm high; stems and leaves sparsely hirsute to strigose. Leaves sessile, oblong to narrow-obovate, 4–20 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, entire, distally toothed, or rarely, pinnatifid. Capitula 3–8 mm diam.; involucral bracts oblong, 2.5–4 mm long; ray florets c. 40–60, yellow, 2–4 mm long; disc florets sterile. Cypsela body c. 1.5 mm long, tuberculate (occasionally the tubercles coalescing to form irregular lateral ridges), pale to reddish-brown; major awns 2, diverging at right-angles to plane of cypsela faces, 1–2 mm long, barbed near apex; secondary awns (to 0.5 mm long), above one angle of cypsela, basally united in a group of 3–6, with usually a single awn above the opposite angle. Flowers mostly Sep.–Jan.