Ursinia speciosa

Erect or procumbent annual or perennial herb to c. 40 cm high, ± glabrous. Leaves 1–5.5 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, 1–2-pinnatisect with linear, acute lobes. Capitula hemispherical, 2–4 cm diam.; involucral bracts lanceolate to ovate, 3–8 mm long, 6-seriate. Ray florets 15–25, neuter, often with long glandular hairs, yellow or orange or rarely whitish; ligules 13–16 mm long, usually purplish-brown below; disc florets yellow with black or purplish lobes, enveloped by a receptacle scale; receptacle scales linear, those of outer disc florets with circular terminal appendages. Cypselas angular, c. 2.5 mm long, 5-ribbed, glabrous, straw-coloured, brown or light-red with lighter coloured ribs; pappus of an outer series of 5 white obovate scales 4–6 mm long and an inner series of 5 bristle-like scales. Flowering in Victoria recorded from June to October.