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Erect annual or short-lived perennial herb. Mid cauline lvs sparsely to densely hispid especially on lower surface, apetiolate, elliptic, evenly, finely dentate, slightly amplexicaul and shallowly to deeply dentate at base, (3)–4–8 × (0.5)–1–3 cm. Uppermost lvs smaller, often narrower and with few remote teeth. Supplementary bracts 0–3, 1–2 mm long. Involucral bracts 5–7–(8), glabrous, 4.5–5.5 mm long. Ray florets 0. Disc greenish yellow, c. 1.5 mm diam. Achenes subcylindric, only slightly narrowed to and slightly constricted below apex, with 1–3 rows of hairs in grooves between broad ribs, 2–2.5 mm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Oct.–Jan.