Senecio harveianus Macowan

Perennial herb, up to 1 m high; branching from base, woody, glabrous or very sparsely hairy, leafy, often with axillary leaf tufts. Leaves: blade linear, up to 100 x 10 mm, apex acute, base half-clasping, often hastately eared, lower leaves sometimes narrowed to petiole-like base, margins ± revolute, denticulate, sometimes more coarsely toothed or pinnately lobed; glabrous. Heads radiate, few to many in open, corymbose panicles. Involucral bracts ± 20, (5-)6-7(-9) mm long, slightly shorter than or equalling disc florets; calyculus bracts ample, in 3 or 4 series, bracts overlapping, innermost ± 1/3-1/2 as long as involucre. Flowers: ray florets ± (7-)13; ray and disc florets canary-yellow; Oct.-Apr. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hispid between ribs.