Prostrate herb. Stems 30–40 cm long, round, strigose with white antrorse appressed hairs, rooting at nodes. Leaves 10–30 mm long, 6–20 mm wide, discolorous; both surfaces moderately densely strigose, with hairs emerging from centre of scale-like glands. Involucral bracts lanceolate to ovate, leaf-like, 4–5 mm long. Achenes 3.5–4 mm long excluding pappus, grey to black, with cream margins. Pappus c. 1 mm long.
Found in the understorey of Eucalyptus forest, and invading pastures and cultivated ground, on a range of soils from sand to clay, often in damp places, at altitudes of c. 140–150 m.
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