Craspedia adenophora

Erect herb with single flowering scape c. 10–40 cm high; roots thick, tomentose. Leaves mostly basal, obovate-spathulate to oblanceolate-spathulate or narrowly so, 6.5–18 cm long, 8–15(–20) mm wide, acute , midrib and 2–4 secondary veins evident, narrow-attenuate at base, discolourous; adaxial surface dark green with dense glandular hairs, sometimes with loose appressed woolly hairs, particularly on midrib; abaxial surface densely appressed woolly-tomentose with short glandular hairs intermixed. Inflorescence bright to pale yellow, rarely orange, hemispherical to globose, c. 1.5–3.5 cm diam. with c. 50–100 capitula; scape straw-coloured, brown to red-brown with dense glandular hairs, sometimes with appressed silky hairs. Capitula with 5–10 florets; bract subtending capitulum narrowly to broadly ovate, margins narrow, scarious, dark brown, colourless towards base, stereome c. ovate, glandular, woolly. Cypselas 1.5–2.5 mm long; pappus 3.5–5 mm long. Flowers Dec.–Feb.