Perennial suffrutex, to about 0.5 m tall. Stems woody, branching, typically very jointed at the nodes, grey, cobwebby (rarely tomentose), somewhat glabrescent, greener on new growth, lined. Leaves reniform, with (3-)5(-7) shallow or distinct lobes, each lobe usually shallowly 3-lobed and often sharply dentate, sometimes with one or two small lateral pinnae below lamina; lamina 6-29 x 7-47 mm, grey/canescent or white, thickly to thinly cobwebby, often glabrescent above, thickly cobwebby to tomentose below, sometimes glabrescent, buds white-woolly (less so in var. flabellifolia); apex rounded; margin dentate (tips of teeth glabrous giving leaf ‘frilly’ look) or slightly crenate; base truncate to slightly cordate; petiole 5-38 mm long, tomentose to cobwebby, sometimes glabrescent; auricles small, auriform, toothed, occasionally absent. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, many (8-28 per stem branch) arranged in a compact (or rarely lax) corymb; peduncles (1.5-)5-20(-28) mm long, cobwebby, glabrescent (or glabrous in var. flabellifolia), bracteate. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 8 or 9, rarely 13, (3.2-)4-6 mm long, thinly cobwebby, glabrescent, or glabrous (var. flabellifolia); margins scarious. Ray florets (3-)5 or 6, 5.0-8.5(-11.5) mm long; limb 2.5-5.0(-7.5) mm, 4-veined (rarely 5-veined). Disc florets (10-)18-20; corolla 3.5-6.0(-7.0) mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed with prominent median rib when mature, margined, dark brown, c. 3.0 mm long when mature, ciliate and hairy to sparsely hairy on faces. Pappus 3-4 mm long (5-6 mm long in var. flabellifolia).
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Cobwebby perennial or shrublet, 300-600 mm tall. Leaves palmately lobed, blades 6-30 mm long, lobes toothed, often crisped, ± cobwebby or felted, with basal auricles; hairs tapering smoothly from base. Flowerheads in corymbs, radiate, yellow, 10 mm diam.; involucral bracts 8, subglabrous to felted.
Perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves mostly reniform, sometimes with additional lobes on petiole, glabrous to canescent or tomentose; petioles auricled. Rays 5-8. Achenes hispidulous, ciliate. Flowers yellow; January and April to July.
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