Opercularia aspera

Prostrate to erect herb or subshrub, sometimes tangled amongst other vegetation to c. 1.5 m high; branches ribbed, densely hairy to glabrous, often scabrous. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, mostly 10–60 mm long and 5–20 mm wide, apex attenuate, surfaces scabrous to hairy, particularly on veins, margins flat to recurved; petiole 1–10 mm long. Inflorescences axillary and terminal 10–30-flowered spherical heads; peduncles mostly 5–10 mm long, recurved, shorter than subtending leaves. Flowers bisexual; calyx-lobes linear-triangular, 2–4 mm long, ciliate; corolla 2–4 mm long. Capsules dehiscing by an oblique abscission leaving a star-shaped cavity when seeds shed; seeds compressed-ellipsoid, 2–3 mm long, outer surface coarsely cristate-rugulose, inner surface with 2 smooth longitudinal ridges, rugose Flowers Sep.–Dec.