Senecio mbuluzensis Compton

Perennial herb up to c. 1.5 m tall, several stems from the stock, simple below the inflorescence, glabrous or thinly pilose, densely leafy, lowermost leaves often withered and fallen at flowering. Leaves up to 8.5 x 2 cm, membranous, lanceolate, apex acute, apiculate, base narrowed, sessile, margins finely callose-serrulate, ciliate, upper surface glabrous, lower glabrous except for pilose midrib and sparse hairs on secondary veins. Heads radiate, up to 12 on long sparsely bracteate peduncles corymbosely arranged. Involucre campanulate, bracts c. 12-14, 13-16 mm long, equalling the disc, abruptly long-acuminate, thinly hairy, calyculus bracts few, long, narrow, acuminate, equalling the involucre, margins ciliate. Rays 8, long and spreading, they and the disc bright yellow. Achenes c. 9 mm long, fusiform, ribbed, glabrous.