Brunonia australis

Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 3–16 cm long, 3–45 mm wide, surfaces green, silky-villous, apex c. acute, base attenuate and petiole-like. Scapes usually several–many, terminal on short branchlets, erect, 5–32 cm long, unbranched, hairy; heads hemispherical, 13–25 mm diam.; outer involucral bracts mostly 3.5–8 mm long, inner bracts shorter; bracteoles 4–5 mm long. Sepals 3–4 mm long; corolla 6–10 mm long, bright blue; corolla tube narrow, to c. 5 mm long; corolla-lobes linear, spreading; style exserted c. 3 mm; indusium orbicular to broad-elliptic, c. 1 mm long, yellow. Nut c. 3 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Jan.