Senecio distalilobatus

Erect annual to 1.5 m high; stems moderately coarse hairy, density reducing upwards, rarely ± glabrous throughout. Leaves sessile, narrow-oblong to narrow-elliptic in outline, 6–12 cm long, c. 1.0–4.5 cm wide, lobate to subpinnatisect with remotely denticulate or dentate margins, coarse-hairy, occasionally glabrescent; lower surface sometimes with a cobwebby overlay; mid-stem leaves attenuate at base; upper leaves usually auriculate. Inflorescence corymbose, with c. 50–100 capitula; capitula non-radiate; involucre cylindric, 5–7 mm long, glabrous; bracts 7–10(–12); bracteoles present; florets 12–20, bisexual and female. Cypselas cylindric to narrow-ellipsoid, 2.0–2.8 mm long, medium to dark red-brown with fine papillose hairs in lines or ± scattered; pappus of slender hairs, 5–6 mm long, deciduous. Flowers summer–early autumn.