Senecio lydenburgensis Hutch. & Burtt Davy

Perennial herb up to c. 1.3 m tall, rootstock thick, woody, silky-woolly, crowned with a few coarse fibrous leaf bases, flowering stem solitary, simple below the inflorescence, loosely cottony or woolly, densely leafy. Radical leaves few, coriaceous, up to 15 x 1 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong, apex acute, narrowed to a broad, petiole-like base expanded and half-clasping below, margins closely and minutely callose-denticulate, both surfaces black-punctate, thinly woolly or cobwebby, sometimes glabrescent or hairs persisting at the base, cauline leaves similar but soon sessile, base eared, half-clasping, soon passing into lanceolate-acute bracts. Heads radiate, up to c. 40 corymbose-paniculately arranged, branches thinly woolly, cottony or glabrous. Involucre campanulate, bracts c. 12, 6-7 mm long, shorter than the disc, keeled, nerves resinous, calyculus bracts few, the longest nearly equalling the involucre, all loosely woolly or cottony or nearly glabrous. Rays (5-)8, soon reflexed, they and the disc bright yellow, corolla lobes of disc flowers with a median line. Achenes 3 mm long, barrel-shaped, ribbed, villous, or hairs may be sparse.