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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 0.6(-0.9) m high, solitary, simple below inflorescences, leafy, glabrous; crown and leaf axils woolly. Leaves few, glabrous, concentrated in lower part of stem passing into bracts; blade narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, ovate or suborbicular, up to 140 x 100 mm, at least middle leaf (1)2-4(5) x as long as broad, apex obtuse, acute or acuminate, base ± cordate-clasping, often very shortly decurrent, margins entire or remotely and obscurely callose-denticulate, often ± revolute. Heads radiate or discoid, few to many on sparsely bracteate peduncles, corymbose-paniculately arranged. Involucral bracts 6-8(-10), 3.5-5.0 mm long, much shorter than disc florets; calyculus bracts 0-2, very small. Flowers: ray florets 5, sometimes fewer or absent, rarely 8; ray and disc florets bright yellow; Oct.-Apr. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) ribbed, glabrous.
Perennial herb, glabrous, rootstock woody, crown woolly. Flowering stem solitary, simple, up to 0.9 m high, leafy. Leaves 3-8, variable, becoming bracts, up to 140 mm long, lanceolate to oblong-elliptic or ovate, base ± cordate-clasping, often ± decurrent, margins thickened, entire or ± callose-denticulate, often ± revolute; leaves drying leathery or rigid, reticulate venation invisible to raised. Inflorescence corymbose-paniculate; peduncles long. Capitula few-many, discoid, disc and rays (5) bright yellow; involucre turbinate; bracts 6-10, 3.5-6.0 mm long; calyculus bracts 0-2, minute. Flowering time Aug.-Dec. Cypselae cylindrical, 3-4 mm long, ribbed, glabrous.
Perennial herb, up to 0.6(-0.9) m high. Crown and lowest nodes woolly, wool hidden deep in leaf axils. Leaves glabrous. Heads radiate or discoid, rays 5, sometimes fewer or wanting, rarely 8. Involucral bracts 3.5-5.0 mm long, 6-8(-10). Achenes and ovaries glabrous. Flowers bright yellow.
