Brachyscome petrophila

Weakly ascending to erect herb, to c. 50 cm high. Leaves cauline, 2–11 cm long, 4–35 mm wide, with 5–27 teeth or lobes, each terminating in a blunt mucro, all leaves green or with the undersurface purplish and with long glandular hairs mainly confined to the margins. Scapes manifestly exceeding leaves; bracts c. 25, 1-seriate, c. equal, lanceolate, 3–3.8 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, glabrous or with glandular hairs, mainly herbaceous but with narrow hyaline margins, with a prominent, often orange midrib; ligules 6.5–7.8 mm long, mauve. Cypselas obovoid, 1.6–2.3 mm long, 0.75–0.9 mm wide, uniformly brown, ridges on lateral faces not swollen, more or less smooth; lateral faces conspicuously tuberculate, glabrous except for scattered, curved hairs in immature cypselas; margins more or less smooth; pappus 0.15–0.5 mm long, bristles joined at base. Flowers mostly Aug.–Jan.