Annual (to perennial?), 50–120 cm high, branched. Anchor hairs mainly 2-hooked. Peduncles 1–6 cm long; peduncular bracts 0–3 near capitulum, clearly separate from involucral bracts. Capitula few to > 30, 9–12 mm long and 5–6 mm wide at anthesis, 9–13 mm long and 5–6 (–7) mm wide in fruit. Involucre of 28–40 bracts in 3–4 outer and 2 inner rows, with longest outer bracts slightly (
Occurs in rainforest, wet and dry sclerophyll forest and mountain grassland, 200 to >1000 m altitude. Associated mainly with native vegetation, also on road-sides through native forest habitat. Red soil, pale brown clay or clayey soil; over basalt or shale.
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