Senecio bupleuroides Dc.

Perennial herb with a woody stock, glabrous except for the woolly crown and woolly hairs hidden in the leaf axils, flowering stems usually solitary, simple below the inflorescence branches, c. 25-75 cm tall, leafy mainly in the lower part. Leaves 3-6(-7), passing abruptly into inflorescence bracts, up to 2.5 x 1.8 cm, at least the middle leaf 10 or more times as long as broad, rarely only 8 times, linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base often minutely eared, clasping, sometimes slightly decurrent, margins thickened, entire or distantly callose-denticulate, often somewhat revolute, leathery or rigid, side nerves few, sharply ascending, distinct or obscure. Heads radiate, few to many on long, sparsely bracteate peduncles corymbose-paniculately arranged. Involucre turbinate, bracts 8, (3-)4-5(-5.5) mm long, much shorter than the disc, broad, flat, nerves resinous, calyculus bracts 1 or 2, very small. Rays usually 5, very rarely 6, very rarely wanting, they and the disc bright yellow. Achenes c. 3.5 m long, ribbed, glabrous.