Cineraria deltoidea Sond.

Perennial herb, erect or more usually scandent or trailing, 15–300 cm high or long; stems branched, often purplish, floccose-tomentose, thinly arachnoid or sparsely pubescent, glabrescent.. Leaves petiolate, except the uppermost, very broadly ovate to narrowly triangular in outline, 1–7 cm long, 1–9.3 cm wide, base subtruncate to deeply cordate or emarginate, obscurely to moderately deeply 5–11-lobed, dentate on the distal margins of the lobes, apex acute to rounded and apiculate or sometimes attenuate, green and glabrescent except for main veins or glabrous above, floccose-tomentose to sparsely pubescent beneath, especially on veins, often glabrescent; petiole often narrowly winged, rarely with 1–4 small oblong lateral lobes, expanded and usually auriculate at the base, 0.8–6.5 cm long; uppermost stem leaves sessile, smaller.. Capitula rarely solitary, normally in erect to pendulous, often copious, terminal cymes.. Involucre cylindrical, 4–7.5 mm high; bracts of calyculus 2–8, lanceolate, 1–3 mm long; phyllaries 8–14, 3.5–7 mm long, pale green with brownish or reddish-brown tips, glabrous or sometimes thinly arachnoid.. Ray florets 4–14, rays golden yellow to lemon yellow, 4–14 mm long, 1.5–3.5 mm wide, tube 2–3 mm long, sparsely hairy or rarely glabrous; disc florets yellow, corolla 3–6.2 mm long, tube usually glabrous, lobes 0.5–1 mm long.. Achenes dark-coloured, 2–3.5 mm long, the outer compressed and slightly winged, the inner 3-angled, shortly ciliate on the margins and sometimes also on the faces, or completely glabrous; pappus 3–6 mm long.. Fig. 118 (page 564).