Cineraria platycarpa Dc.

Annual or short-lived perennial herb, 0.3-0.5(-1.0) m tall. Stems slender, slightly woody, branching mainly towards the base, glabrous. Leaves: upper leaves pinnatisect or lyrate-pinnatifid with 3-5 pinnae, the terminal pinna usually the largest, 10-42 x 8-30 mm, middle to lower leaves commonly reniform, 5-7-lobed with 1-2 lateral pinnae along petiole; lamina 12-32 x 13-25 mm, glabrous, but with few hairs in angles of lobes, and cobwebby when young; apex acute to obtuse; margin dentate; base truncate to subcordate; petiole 3-41 mm long, glabrous, with cobwebby hairs in axils; auricles small and caducous, lanceolate, dentate. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, 8-24 per stem branch arranged in lax corymbs; peduncles 8-68 mm long, glabrous, with few or no bracteoles. Involucre calyculate; phyllaries 8-12(-13), 4-5 mm long, glabrous; margins scarious. Ray florets 6-8, 6-8 mm long; limb 4-6 mm long, 4-(occasionally 5-) veined. Disc florets c. 30; corolla 3.0-4.2 mm long. Cypselae obovate, compressed with prominent median rib on inner face when mature, distinctly margined, dark brown or black with brown margins, 2.0-2.2 mm long, ciliate and hairy to sparsely hairy on faces. Pappus about 3/4 length of corolla.