Senecio campylocarpus

Erect perrenial to 1.5 m high; stems sparsely appressed-cottony or glabrescent. Leaves pseudopetiolate sometimes becoming auriculate upwards, very narrow-elliptic to linear, to 24 cm long, to 15 mm wide, not dissected, usually minutely denticulate, both surfaces glabrous, glabrescent or sparsely appressed-cobwebby. Inflorescence corymbose, typically with 30–100 capitula; capitula non-radiate; involucre narrowly cylindric, 5.0–8.0 mm long, moderately to sparsely cobwebby or glabrescent; bracts 12–14; bracteoles present; florets 30–50, bisexual and female. Cypselas lageniform, outer ones often rather curved, 2.5–3.5 mm long, brown, papillose-hairy scattered in lines; pappus of slender hairs 5–6 mm long, deciduous. Flowers spring–autumn.