Arctotis fastuosa Jacq.

Erect annual, up to 500 mm tall, stems hollow. Leaves petiolate, obovate to lyrate-pinnatifid to pinnatisect, both surfaces glandular, roughly hairy or loosely felted; upper leaves sessile, auriculate. Outer involucral bracts glandular, softly hairy, with a reflexed, broadly linear, apical appendage. Ray floret limb orange, sometimes yellow, with dark band at base; disc florets black, sometimes yellow. Cypsela obovoid, rugose, glabrous or papillose, 1 linear-undulate cavity; pappus absent.