Cotula pedicellata Compton

An annual herb, simple or shortly branching, from a few to about 30 cm in height. Leaves in a sub-basal tuft, up to about 7 cm long, softly pilose throughout, the base sheathing with a distinct midrib, the lower half petiolar, the upper half 1-2-pinnatisect, the segments linear, minutely apiculate. Peduncles terminal, erect, scape-like, pilose at base with a few scattered hairs throughout, up to 30 cm long. Capitulum solitary, discoid, variable in size up to 25 mm diam. Involucre of numerous imbricate bracts in three or four layers, thinly pilose, the outermost bracts oblong, the innermost orbicular, all obtuse and membrane-tipped. Florets very numerous, all pedicellate, the pedicels up to 3 mm long, all hermaphrodite with good-looking pollen and stigmas, some florets are apparently sterile with a flat elliptical empty ovary, others fertile with an obovate membrane-winged ovary; the latter also having thicker pedicels and corolla tubes than the former, sterile and fertile florets are intermingled. Corolla-tube 1.3 mm long, with a shortly deflexed basal frill in front and back; the distal portion 2.3 mm long with four spreading yellow lobes. Achene brown, glabrous, flattened, 2.3 mm long, 1.7 mm wide, membrane-winged achenes.