Glabrous twiner, with stems to 5(–10) m long. Leaves broad-ovate to orbicular in outline, 3–8 cm long and wide, 3–7-lobed, base cordate, palmately 3–7-veined, somewhat fleshy, pale green, often purple-tinged; petiole 2–7 cm long; stipules reniform, 5–10 mm wide. Capitula 15–50, 2–3 mm diam., in dense corymbose panicles; bracteoles 2–4, oblanceolate, 1–2 mm long, immediately below capitula; involucral bracts 8–10, lanceolate, 3–4 mm long, glabrous except for an apical tuft of hairs. Florets 10–12, exceeding involucre by c. 5 mm at anthesis, sweetly fragrant. Cypselas c. 2 mm long, reddish-brown; pappus 5–6 mm long, white. Flowers May–Sep.
GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz. Also naturalised WA, SA, NSW, LHI, Tas. Native to southern Africa. Widespread in cooler, moister parts of southern Victoria, often in disturbed areas in gullies and around forest margins.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
