Arctotis acaulis L.

Tufted perennial with woody underground rootstock, up to 300 mm tall. Leaves petiolate, lyrate-pinnatifid to pinnatisect or oblanceolate, apex obtuse, felted below, roughly hairy above. Capitula solitary, scapose; peduncle woolly-hairy. Involucral bracts glabrous, but outer bracts with linear, woolly, reflexed apical appendage. Ray floret limb orange, yellow or white above, with black or dark red blotch at base, red-purple below; disc florets black. Cypsela constricted at base, 2 rounded cavities, densely woolly, basal ring of rigid hairs as long or longer than cypsela; pappus scales biseriate, inner whorl longer than cypsela.