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Perennial herb, mat-forming, up to 0.4 m long, trailing/creeping. Stem uniformly leafy. Leaves coriaceous, 30-110 x 4-23 mm, lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, either all leaves undivided or some pinnatifid, with 1 or 2 laciniae lanceolate, apex acute/obtuse, margins entire, upper surface glabrous/tomentose, lower surface tomentose, except midvein. Capitula on penduncles 40-150 mm long, not leafy, sometimes linear bracts on stem; involucre campanulate/cupuliform; scales terminal, few parietal, 2-or 3-seriate; outer involucral scales triangulate-lanceolate, acute, 4-7 mm long, tomentose; inner involucral scales narrowly triangulate, acuminate, 5-10 mm long, ± glabrous. Ligules yellow, plain or basal black/bicoloured spots. Flowering time all year, rainfall dependent.
Perennial. Stems sprawling; old lvs deciduous. Lvs tufted at tips of stems, usually entire, rarely pinnate, oblanceolate-spathulate, 5-10 × 0.5-1.5 cm, tapered to long petiole; upper surface usually glabrous or rarely bristly, dark green; lower surface with dense appressed white tomentum, with glabrous midrib; margins glabrous or with minute denticles, revolute. Capitula solitary; peduncles 5-10-(15) cm long. Involucre 10-15 mm diam., campanulate. Involucral bracts in 2-3 rows, glabrous or with minute denticles on margins; free portion narrowly triangular, < fused portion. Ligules bright orange with dark white-centred blotch at base, 2-2.5 cm long. Disc florets dark or orange. Achenes not seen.
Disk-florets numerous; corollas yellow, 5–6 mm. long; achenes 3–5 mm. long, narrowly subfusiform-turbinate, obscurely 10–12-ribbed, densely long-sericeous with the hairs hiding the pappus; pappus 2-seriate of subequal accrescent scale-like setae 2–5 mm. long, the setae developing a somewhat thickened stalk-like base and narrowly hyaline lateral wings which taper into a fine apex, the outer series briefly connate at the base, the inner free.
Leaves leathery, mostly 3–11(15) x 0.4–2.3 cm., lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, tapering-attenuate petiole-like below and stem-clasping at the base, mostly simple sometimes pinnatisect with 1–2 lobes on each side, apices acute or subobtuse, margins somewhat revolute, entire; upper surface glabrous or thinly araneose; lower surface whitish felted-tomentose except for the midrib.
Sprawling, mat-forming perennial to 20 cm. Leaves mostly simple, alternate, oblanceolate, sometimes pinnatisect, white-felted beneath, margins revolute, petioles smooth. Flower heads radiate, yellow; involucral bracts partly white-woolly, inner bracts acute.
Phyllaries several-seriate and longest towards the inside, free parts 5–10 mm. long, the outer usually strap-shaped and often felted-tomentose outside, the inner triangular and ± attenuate at the apex, glabrous.
Stems 1-several, usually decumbent, often ± stoloniferous up to c. 40 cm. long and 4–6 mm. in diam., or suberect to c. 30 cm. tall, simple or branched, ± uniformly leafy, glabrous or ± araneose.
Capitula usually solitary and mostly axillary on upper stem and branches; capitula stalks 4–15 cm. long, naked or sometimes bracteate, glabrous or araneose.
Involucres 10–15 x 8–15 mm., narrowly campanulate, connate in the lower two-thirds.
Rays yellow, ascending-erect, 14–25 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate.
A shortly trailing perennial herb from a woody taproot.
Receptacle alveolae walls c. 0.5 mm. high, membranous.
