Inner involucral bracts obtuse to acute or evenly acuminate; apex smooth and flat, entire, pale yellowish or pale red, often reddish below apex as stripes on either side of stereome. Florets 20–30. Pappus bristles not broadened at base and free, or only slightly broadened at base where weakly united and soon free, deciduous. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, EGL, Strz. Occasional on seasonally damp, sandy or gravelly ground, mostly through drier forest areas, but also near-coastal, and fringing inland salt lakes.
This subspecies as currently circumscribed encompasses variation in pappus morphology and occurs in a diverse range of habitat and consequently may be more appropriately treated as more than one taxon.
