Cineraria parvifolia Burtt Davy

Perennial herb, to 0.4 m tall. Stems woody and branching slightly towards the base, brown to reddish brown, often drying straw-coloured in upper parts, densely hairy. Leaves reniform to deltoid-reniform, very distinctly (3-)5-7-lobed, uppermost leaves occasionally with 1 or 2 pinnae, rarely pinnatisect into 3 or 5 distinct parts; lamina 5-19 x 6-31 mm, green, sometimes tinged reddish-purple, hairy to very densely hairy above and below; apex obtuse to rounded; margin coarsely dentate; base subcordate to cordate; petiole 8-35 mm long, hairy; auricles small, caducous, auriform and usually dissected into two lobes on either side of petiole. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few (mostly 2-4, occasionally as many as 8) in a lax panicle; peduncles (12-)16-52(-55) mm long, sparsely hairy, glabrescent, with few or many small bracts 2-3 mm long. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 12 or 13, 4-5 mm long, glabrous; margins scarious. Ray florets 8 or rarely 9, 5.0-8.0 mm long; limb 3.5-6.0 mm long, distinctly 4-veined (rarely 6-veined), veins reddish-brown. Disc florets 26-32; corolla (3.5-)4.0-5.0 mm long, veins reddish-brown. Cypselae obovate, compressed with a median rib evident in mature cypselae, margined (to narrow-winged), brown or black with paler margins, 2-3 mm long, glabrous. Pappus to base of disc corolla lobes.