Perennial herb with verrucose taproot. Stems 1-several, to 15 cm long. Leaves at or near base of stem, rather soft; petiole terete, 1-3.5 cm long; lamina divided up to 6 times into terete, ±straight lobes; ultimate lobes divergent, 2-10 mm long. Scape 35-70 cm tall, openly branched; stems ±straight; heads 10-12 mm diam.; bracts broadly ovate, acute to obtuse, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 5-6 mm long; limb narrower than tube. Nut 3 mm diam., silky.
Grows in low-lying areas, in sand, sometimes over laterite in open Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata ) forest.
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