Othonna coronopifolia L.

Shrublet or shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, sometimes gnarled and dwarfed, but usually erect and twiggy with smooth, pale brown or grey stems. Leaves usually in tufts on short branches, oblanceolate and narrowed to a petiole-like base, (10-)20-60 x 3-7 mm, entire or sparsely toothed, leathery, with woolly axils. Flowerheads 1(2) on naked peduncles mostly 50-150 mm long, at branch tips, radiate, yellow; involucre cup-shaped, 10-15 mm diam., bracts 8-10, 7-10 x 2 mm. Cypselas 4-5 mm long, pubescent; pappus ± 15 mm, tawny-banded.