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Perennial herb; flowering stems up to 1 m high from tuberous, woody rootstock; stems 1 or several from crown, simple below inflorescence branches, densely leafy near base, glabrous, fleshy. Leaves: blade rhomboid or obovate, up to 200 x 80 mm, apex subacute, mucronate, cuneate and tapering to a broad, flat, petiole-like, half-clasping base, margins distantly callose-denticulate in upper part, sinuate-lobed or more sharply dentate; fleshy, glabrous. Heads discoid, few to many, corymbosely to paniculately arranged. Involucral bracts 10-12, (8.0-)9.5-10.0 mm long, ± equalling disc florets; calyculus bracts 1 or 2, very small. Flowers: disc florets only, bright yellow; Oct.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela (and ovary) hispid between ribs or glabrous.
Perennial herb, glabrous, ± glaucous, fleshy, rootstock tuberous, woody, up to 80 x 15 mm. Flowering stems 1-several, simple, stout, up to 1 m high, leafy near base. Leaves rhomboid or obovate, up to 200 mm long, base broad, flat, petiole-like, margins ± callose-denticulate, sinuate-lobed or dentate. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle; peduncles long, nude. Capitula few-many, discoid, bright yellow (rarely radiate?); involucre turbinate-campanulate; bracts 10-12, 8-10 mm long; calyculus bracts 1 or 2, minute. Flowering time Nov.-Mar. Cypselae cylindrical, 5 mm long, ribbed, furrows hairy.
Perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves rhomboid or obovate, tapering to a broad, flat, petiole-like, half-clasping base, fleshy, glabrous. Heads discoid, involucral bracts 10-12, (8.0-)9.5-10.0 mm long. Achenes and ovaries hispid between ribs. Flowers bright yellow; December to January and in April.
Tuberous-rooted, glabrous, tufted perennial to 30 cm. Leaves fleshy, petiolate, obovate to rhomboid, deeply toothed. Flower heads discoid, in lax corymbs on elongate, naked peduncles, yellow.
