Lasiospermum poterioides Hutch.

Much-branched, mat-forming, perennial herbs, rarely erect, rather ascending, 100-300 mm tall, up to 400 mm in diameter. Older stems decumbent, glabrescent, sometimes rooting at nodes; young growing points densely long-pilose. Leaves initially rosulate; petiole broadened basally, semi-ample x icaul, relatively short with serrate-dentate margins; lamina pinnatisect to bipinnatisect, 40-75 x 5-15 mm, initially delicately long-pilose, glabrescent; leaves on flowering shoots basally pinnatisect with decreasing number and size of lobes transending to peduncle; lobes oblanceolate, mucronate with hard, white mucro. Capitula homogamous discoid, solitary, terminal, pedunculate, in flower ±15 mm in diameter, in fruit more than 20 mm in diameter; distal part of peduncle and involucral bracts felted, soon glabrescent. Involucre saucer-shaped, involucral bracts in 3 or 4 rows, imbricate, broadly ovate, rarely obtuse-triangular, increasing in width from outer to inner, with conspicuous, broad, transparent, membranous margin, up to 4 x 3.2 mm. Receptacle flattened. Paleae broadly ovate to oblong-elliptic, irregularly dentate, transparent, membranous, 3-4 mm long, outer many-veined, inner with conspicuous main vein. Disc florets ±250, bisexual; corolla tubular, 5-dentate(-lobed), golden yellow, turning red-brown with age, 4.0-5.2 mm long. Stamens 5. Style bifurcate, branches linear, truncate, with sweeping hairs on distal apices. Ovary up to 2.5 mm long, after anthesis with dense, woolly indumentum.