Cineraria longipes S.Moore

Perennial herbs or subshrublets, to about 0.6 m tall. Stems woody towards the base, usually slender, 2.0-4.0(-5.0) mm in diameter, branching mainly near the base, usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely hairy, but densely hairy or cobwebby, glabrescent in some forms. Leaves deltoid-reniform to reniform, distinctly (rarely shallowly)5-7-lobed, sometimes with one or two pairs of lateral pinnae on upper leaves; lamina 6-58 x 8-64 mm, glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy on veins below and at junction with petiole, very hairy in some forms, thinly cobwebby, glabrescent in others; apex obtuse to rounded (rarely acute); margin dentate; base truncate to subcordate to cordate; petiole 6-72(-87) mm long, glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairy in some forms, cobwebby glabrescent in some northern specimens), with white woolly hairs in axils; auricles present, small or conspicuous, persistent or caducous, auriform in the Western and Eastern Cape, lanceolate in the northern subspecies. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few (2-12) to many (14-90) per stem branch (rarely as many as 120), usually small, arranged in a lax panicle (rarely compact); peduncles 2-55(-65) mm long, glabrous (or hairy in some forms, cobwebby, glabrescent in some northern specimens), bracteate. Involucre with few calyculus bracts, often descending peduncle; phyllaries (5-)8-10(-13), 3-5(-6) mm long, glabrous (or hairy in some south-western Cape forms); margins scarious. Ray florets (3-)5(-8, rarely 9), 3.5-7.5(-12.5) mm long; limb 3.0-6.0(-9.5) mm, 4-veined (rarely 6-veined). Disc florets (7-)16-28(-43); corolla 3.0-5.0 mm long. Cypselae obovate (to narrowly obovate in C. lobata subsp. lasiocaulis), laterally compressed, margined to narrow-winged, ray cypselae with broad wings in Eastern Cape forms, brown or dark brown (to black) with paler margin or wing, 2.0-4.0 mm long, ciliate and hairy to sparsely hairy on faces, inner faces often less hairy than outer, some almost glabrous. Pappus of scabrid bristles, usually two thirds of disc corolla length.