Cineraria aspera Thunb.

Perennial spreading shrublet, to 1 m tall and as wide. Stems woody, branching mainly near the base but also to some extent along their length, green to reddish-brown usually with greyish or whitish tone due to hairs, lined. Leaves pinnatisect with ovate to elliptic outline, lobes dentate and usually pinnatilobed, often with one or two lateral pinnae below main region of lamina; lamina (10-)18-84 x 12-77 mm, lobes 0.7-9.0 mm wide at the narrowest point on lobe, greyish-green due to thick cobwebby indumentum on upper and lower surfaces, although often glabrescing more on the upper surface, buds and young leaves white-woolly; apex acute; margin dentate; base truncate to subcordate (to cordate); petiole 5-50 mm long, thickly to thinly cobwebby; auricles present, varying from small to very conspicuous, auriform, but often dissected into lobes. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, usually many (18-106) per stem branch arranged in compact corymbose panicle, occasionally fewer (8-12 per stem branch); peduncles 3-19 mm long, cobwebby, usually conspicuously bracteate with linear to lanceolate bracts, 2-4(-8) mm long. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 8-10(-13), 4-5 mm long, glabrous though cobwebby amongst calyculus bracts; margins scarious. Ray florets 5-8, 5.0-8.0 mm long; limb 3.0-6.0 mm long, 4-veined. Disc florets 14-28; corolla 3.8-5.0 mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed, margined, dark brown when mature, 2.0-2.6 mm long, ciliate and hairy, occasionally sparsely hairy on faces. Pappus as long as disc floret corolla or nearly so.