Cymbonotus preissianus Steetz

Herbs to 30 cm high. Leaves erect or spreading, ovate, lanceolate or elliptic, 2–30 cm long, 2–10 cm wide, coarsely toothed or pinnatisect; adaxial surface dark green, sparsely hairy with short coarse hairs or nearly glabrous; abaxial surface densely covered with white matted hairs. Capitula 12–30 mm diam.; peduncle 0–15 cm long; involucral bracts with dense cottony hairs on outer face, often obscuring glands; outer bracts spreading. Ray florets 10–20; ligule linear to oblanceolate, 6–20 mm long, 1–4 mm wide; corolla lobes 0.2–1 mm long, yellow. Disc florets 10–40; corolla dilated above a narrow base, 2–4 mm long, yellow, glandular; style branches c. 3 mm long. Achenes obovoid, 2.5–4.0 mm long, 1.0–1.4 mm wide, straight or slightly curved, with corolla insertion slightly eccentric, transversely wrinkled throughout, brown to black.

It grows in a range of open forest and woodland habitats, in disturbed areas, often in drainage lines.