Herbs 10–40 cm high. Leaves ascending, lanceolate, 10–40 cm long, 3–9 cm wide, pinnatisect; adaxial surface dark green, sparsely hairy, becoming glabrous; abaxial surface green or greenish grey, sparsely to moderately cottony-hairy. Capitula 15–30 mm diam.; peduncle 2–30 cm long; involucral bracts cottony-hairy and glandular on outer face, with or without a scarious margin to 2 mm wide. Ray florets 15–20; ligule elliptic, 15–28 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, yellow, glandular. Disc florets 30–85; corolla dilated distally from narrow base, 4–5 mm long, yellow, glandular; style branches 0.5–1 mm long. Achenes obovoid, 4.5–5.9 mm long, 2.4–2.8 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, with corolla insertion slightly eccentric, ±smooth or slightly rugose, brown to nearly black.
Occurs on black, brown, or grey heavy cracking clay, usually in open grassland, along roadsides or beside waterholes or watercourses.
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