Senecio natalicola Hilliard

Perennial herb, stock woody, up to 1 cm diam., crowned with a rosette of leaves, flowering stems several, lateral to the rosette, decumbent then erect, hollow, up to 60 cm tall, simple below, forking above into the compound inflorescence, remotely leafy, stems, leaves and involucre all thinly glandular-pubescent. Radical leaves up to c. 30 x 5 cm, oblanceolate, narrowed to a broad, flat, petiole-like clasping base, apex obtuse, margins coarsely and irregularly toothed or lobulate, the lower part often merely denticulate, cauline leaves oblong to lanceolate passing rapidly into bracts, broad-based, clasping, margins serrulate to denticulate. Reads radiate, few on long bracteate peduncles corymbose-paniculately arranged. Involucre campanulate, bracts c. 18-20, 8-10 mm long, about equalling the disc, calyculus bracts very few. Rays 12-13, long and spreading, median lines in corolla lobes of disc flowers, all flowers clear pale yellow. Achenes c. 3.5 mm long, cylindric, closely ribbed, white-hispid between the ribs.