Cineraria mollis E.Mey. ex Dc.

Annual or possibly short-lived perennial herb, up to 60 cm tall. Stems herbaceous, but may be woody basally, unbranched or branching near the base, cobwebby, glabrescent, lined, green flushed reddish when young. Leaves reniform with pinnae in young seedlings passing to lyrate-pinnatifid in mature plants, usually with 2-3 pairs of lateral lobes, terminal lobe often the largest; lamina up to 80 x 30 mm, cobwebby when young, glabrescent once mature, lower surface usually remaining sparsely cobwebby or hairy, mainly on the veins; apex of lobes acute; margins dentate; base cuneate to truncate to subcordate, upper leaves sometimes sessile and clasping; petiole 1-30 mm long, cobwebby, glabrescent; auricles varying in size, often conspicuous, auriform, but dissected and dentate. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few (4-12) to many (<80) per stem arranged in lax or compact corymbose panicle; peduncles 2-30 mm long, cobwebby, glabrescent, bracteate. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 12-14(-18), 4-5 mm long, glabrescent, but remaining cobwebby at base amongst calyculus bracts; margins scarious. Ray florets usually 7 or 8(rarely 9-14), 5-8 mm long; limb 3.5-6.0 mm long, 4(-6)-veined. Disc florets 32-40(-62), corolla 3-4 mm long. Cypselae broadly obovate, compressed, broadly winged, black or dark brown with pale brown wings, 2.0-2.5 mm long with wings 0.5-0.8 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely ciliate at tops of wings and/or sparsely hairy on faces. Pappus as long as corolla of disc florets.