Senecio behrianus

Extensively rhizomatous perennial to c. 1 m high; branchlets minutely whitish-pubescent, but soon becoming glabrous. Leaves subsessile, linear or very narrow-elliptic, 2–8 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, thick-textured, greyish; surfaces initially minutely whitish-pubescent, but soon becoming glabrous, or lower surface remaining mealy; margins flat or somewhat recurved, entire or distantly callous-toothed. Capitula radiate, solitary and terminal, or few in a slender corymb or panicle; involucre broadly cylindric, 4–6 mm long; bracts 12 or 13, appressed greyish-pubescent or mealy; bracteoles present. Ray florets c. 6, yellow, ligules 3.5–5 mm long; disc florets 10–15. Cypselas tapered slightly toward apex, 2–2.7 mm long, c. 9-ribbed, sparsely papillose-hairy between ribs; pappus of slender hairs c. 7 mm long, deciduous. Flowers Mar.–Jun.