Arctotis diffusa Thunb.

Rhizomatous perennial, up to 100 mm tall, with long, fibrous, unbranched roots, forming diffuse patches. Leaves in a compact rosette, petiolate, lyrate-pinnatifid to-pinnatisect, apex truncate-incised to obtuse, both sides densely felted. Capitula solitary, scapose. Involucral bracts ± glabrous, but outer bracts with linear, densely felted apical appendage up to 4 mm long; inner bracts dark purple-red. Ray floret limb white or pale salmon above, apricot-pink below; disc florets brownish maroon. Cypsela obovoid, 2 rounded cavities, densely hairy, basal ring of rigid hairs longer than cypsela; pappus scales biseriate, inner whorl longer than cypsela.