Calotis scabiosifolia

Tufted, rhizomatous or stoloniferous, variably hispid to strigose perennial to c. 40 cm high. Basal leaves petiolate, narrow oblanceolate to obovate, entire to toothed or lobed, 3–20 cm long; scape leaves sessile, elliptic to oblong, 8–30 mm long, 3–9 mm wide, almost invariably toothed or lobed. Scapes unbranched, or rarely 1- or 2-branched; capitula 15–35 mm diam.; involucral bracts lanceolate to obovate, 3.5–8 mm long; ray florets mauve or white, c. 15–60, 7–13 mm long; disc florets sterile. Cypsela body 2.5–4 mm long, pale to dark reddish-brown, woolly at apex; major awns 5 or 6, stout, diverging to horizontally spreading, 1.5–4 mm long, hairy near base, barbed near apex; secondary awns usually present, to 1.3 mm long, hairy.