root slender, fibrous, annual? radical leaves petioled, green and hispid above, white-woolly beneath, oblongo-lanceolate, variably incised, some entire, some lyrate, some pinnatipartite, the lobes oblong, entire; scapes 2–3 times longer than the leaves, tomentose and hispid; outer inv. sc. hirsute, with dark, spreading points; inner tomentose, with a wide, glabrous margin; achenes thinly pubescent, with a basal tuft of short, silky hairs, the lateral wings strongly toothed. Very similar in general aspect and foliage to A. leptorhiza; but with a different involucre and achene, and apparently purple ray-flowers.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Riv. Zondereinde, Zeyher! 3005. (Herb. Sd., Hk.)
