Cineraria albicans N.E.Br.

Perennial suffrutex, to c. 0.7 m tall. Stems woody, branching, thinly tomentose, glabrescent, sometimes decumbent and rooting from point of contact. Leaves: upper leaves deltoid to deltoid-reniform to reniform, uppermost often lyrate-pinnatifid, lower leaves reniform to deltoid-reniform, occasionally with lateral pinnae at base; lamina 9-60 x 13-85 mm, cobwebby to thinly tomentose above, often glabrescent, tomentose below, sometimes becoming cobwebby when older; apex obtuse to rounded-obtuse; margin dentate; base subcordate to cordate; petiole 9-51(-82) mm long, tomentose, especially on younger leaves, to cobwebby; auricles usually present, varying in size and persistence, auriform and dentate. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few (to many) arranged in lax corymbs, rarely solitary; peduncles 12-62(-99) mm to point of branching, thinly tomentose to cobwebby, glabrescent, bracteate (bracts 2-13 mm long). Involucre calyculate; phyllaries (8-)12-13(-14), 4-7 mm long, persistently tomentose or glabrescent to varying degrees; margins scarious. Ray florets 8-13, (7-)8-11 mm long; limb (4.5-)5.5-8 mm long, 4-veined (-7-veined). Disc florets 34-60; corolla 4.0-6.5 mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed, margined to narrow-winged, brown, 2.0-3.5 mm long, densely ciliate on margins and faces, to sparsely ciliate and hairy on faces, to ciliate on margins only. Pappus as long as disc floret corolla or to base of corolla lobes.