Dwarf rosetted annual, to 2 cm high, stemless. Leaves sessile, more or less oblong in outline, to 5 cm long, 5 mm wide, entire, shallowly lobed to runcinate-pinnatifid, glabrous or with scattered hairs. Capitula solitary or in clusters of up to c. 6; involucre cupular, 2.5–4 mm long; outer bracts 2–4, hairy in firm basal part, the apical appendage glabrous and membranous; inner bracts glabrous, wholly membranous; ligules c. 1 mm long, whitish; receptacle glabrous. Cypselas 1–1.5 mm long, the inner ones pale, oblong, at least some of the outer ones darker, plumper and embraced by the inner involucral bracts; pappus 1–1.5 mm long. Flowers spring.
Gold. Also naturalised in SA. Native to southern Europe. Known in Victoria by a single 2011 collection from near Stuart Mill, south of St Arnaud where growing in intact dry forest.
Possibly more widespread but overlooked due to its diminutive size and resemblance to an immature plant of Hypochaeris or Taraxacum.
