Cineraria alchemilloides Dc.

Perennial herb or shrublet, to 0.5 m (occasionally 1.0 m) tall. Stems woody towards the base, slender, lined, branching near the base, cobwebby, glabrescent to almost glabrous. Leaves reniform to deltoid-reniform (upper leaves more deltoid), distinctly 5-7-lobed, lobes sharply acute and dentate; lamina 8-26 x 11-32 mm, cobwebby, glabrescent above, thickly cobwebby to tomentose below, older leaves sometimes glabrescent; apex acute; margin dentate; base truncate to slightly cordate (to cordate); petiole 8-52(-82) mm long, cobwebby; auricles small or conspicuous (rarely absent), sometimes caducous, varying from auriform to widening of base of petiole. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few to many (6-43 per stem branch) arranged in a lax corymb; peduncles 3-19(-35) mm long, cobwebby, glabrescent, sparsely bracteate, bracts 1-3 mm long. Involucre with few calyculus bracts; phyllaries 7 or 8 (-10 in Namibian specimens;-13 in Brandberg specimens), 3.0-4.0(-5.5) mm long, cobwebby, glabrescent or glabrous in Namibian subspecies; margins scarious. Ray florets 3-5(-7 in Namibian subspecies,-8 in Brandberg specimens), 4.5-7.5(-10) mm long; limb 2.0-5.0(-7.0) mm long, 4-veined. Disc florets 9-13(-20); corolla 3.7-5.5(-6.0) mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed with prominent median rib, margined, dark brown to black when mature, brown with a paler margin when immature, 2-3 mm long, densely ciliate to ciliate, hairy or sparsely hairy to almost glabrous on faces. Pappus 4-5 mm long.