More or less glabrous shrub to c. 1 m high; stem often bare below. Leaves 2–5 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, pinnatisect with several distant filiform lobes to 1 mm wide, somewhat fleshy, dark green. Capitula solitary; peduncles erect, 6–12 cm long, solitary or a few together; involucral bracts c. 15, lanceolate, 8–11 mm long, 3-veined, glandular, glabrous except for an apical tuft of hairs. Ray florets 12–20, ligules 20–24 mm long, bright yellow; disc florets numerous, yellow. Cypselas ellipsoid, 2–3 mm long, ribbed, with a pale fleshy disc at apex, brown; pappus bristles woolly, 4–6 mm long, some erect, others deflexed, caducous. Flowers June–Oct.
VVP, GipP, OtP, HSF. Also naturalised SA, Tas. Native to South Africa. A garden-escape, recorded as established along roadsides in eucalypt forests near Melbourne and Anglesea.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
