Senecio huntii F.Muell.
Type locality: not further given by Mueller.
Shrub or tree up to 6 m. or more tall; branchlets clad in persistent lf-bases. Lvs close-set, submembr., 5-10 × 2-3 cm., lanceolate- to elliptic-oblong, subacute, clad when young in fulvous tomentum on both surfaces, becoming nearly glab. when old, narrowed to appressed base; margins entire, slightly revolute. Infl. a terminal dense panicle subtended by lvs; pedicels rather stout, with linear bracts, densely glandular-tomentose. Capitula up to 2 cm. diam.; phyll. 10-12, narrow-oblong, obtuse to subacute, glandular on back, ciliate on margins and with tuft of hairs at tip. Ray-florets 15-20, ligules broad, recurved, yellow; achenes c. 1·5 mm. long, narrow-oblong, grooved, glab.; pappus-hairs up to 7 mm. long, slender, barbellate.
DIST.: Ch. Forests, especially on Pitt Id.
FL. 12-2.
