Berkheya rigida (Thunb.) Ewart, Jean White & B.Rees

Herba perennis plerumque ± suffrutescens erecta,cr. 20-60 cm (vel ultra?)alta. Caulis in parte superiore ramosus, ± tomentosus, interdum glabrescens et purpurascens, foliatus. Folia alterna, rigida, sessilia, semi-amplexicaulia, cr. 4-8 cm longa superioribus sensim minoribus, pinnatifida rhachide lineari vellanceolata 2-5(-8)mm lata in spinam fulvam 2-4 mm longam excurrente, laciniis in cr. 4-6 iugis dispositis ceterum basin folii versus compluribus laciniis minoribus et denique ± ad spinas reductis auctis triangulate-vel lineari-subulatis cr. 5-20 mm longis apicem et basin folii versus decrescentibus 2-5 mm latis ut apex rhachidis in spinam excurrentibus cum laciniis alteris subaequilongis vel minoribus vel ad spinam reductis geminatis vel ternatis, margine subrevoluta vel revoluta, in interstitiis plerumque spinulis cr. 0.5-2 mm longis obsita, supra glabra vel subglabra vel leviter tomentosa, subtus ± albidi-tomentosa, rarius subglabra. Capitula in apicibus ramorum in inflorescentiam paniculatam plerumque ± densam disposita, discoidea, involueri squamis expansis 1.5-3.0(-3.5) cm diam. Involucri squamae patentes, pauciseriatae, extus ± tomentosae, intus glabrae vel subglabrae, spinosi-acuminatae, margine spinis 1-2 mm longis in 1-3 iugis dispositis ± basi approximatis plerumque geminatis et ceterum spinulis brevioribus obsitae, exteriores breviter triangulatae, mediae ovati-triangulatae vel-lanoeolatae, convexae, interiores lanoeolatae, planae, mediae 8-15(-20) mm longae, oeterae breviores. Margines alveolarum receptaculi in setas stramineas cr. 1(-2) mm longas productae. Achaenia cr. 1.5-2.5 mm longa, pilis brevissimis sparsis obtecta vel glabra. Pappi squamae uniseriatae, cr. 20, oblongi-subrotundae, obtusae, minute denticulatae, cr. 0.2 mm longae.

Commonly grows on loose sandy, loamy and volcanic clay soils in coastal scrublands (with Olearia and Pimelea spp.), and salt marshes of Sarcocornia–Sclerostegia.