Cineraria erosa Harv.

Perennial spreading shrublet, to about 0.6 m tall. Stems woody, branching, cobwebby, sometimes glabrescent, lined. Leaves reniform in outline, shallowly to deeply 3-5-lobed and lobes are again divided (usually into three) or pinnatilobed, frequently with lateral pinnae below lamina, upper leaves often very pinnatisect; lamina 6-28(-35) × 7-40 mm, thickly to thinly cobwebby above, glabrescent, thickly cobwebby to tomentose below, grey/canescent to white-woolly, young leaves and buds very white-woolly; apex obtuse to acute; margin dentate; base subcordate to cordate; petiole 8-47 mm long, cobwebby, slightly glabrescent; auricles conspicuous or inconspicuous, auriform, dentate. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, small, few (e.g. 8-12) to many (18-52) per stem branch arranged in lax corymbose panicles; peduncles 2-15(-24) mm long, cobwebby, bracteate. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 6-8, 3.8-4.5 mm (rarely up to 5.0 mm) long, cobwebby, usually glabrescent to some degree but not glabrous; margins scarious. Ray florets 3-5, 5-7(-8) mm long; limb 2.5-4.0(-5.0) mm long, tip clearly sculpted into 3, 4-veined. Disc florets 8-15; corolla 3.5-4.3(-5.0) mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed, margined, dark brown when mature, 3.0-3.5 mm long, ciliate and sparsely hairy to hairy. Pappus 3.5-4.0 mm long.