Brachyscome ciliaris

Ascending to erect herbs to c. 40 cm high, glabrous or with glandular hairs and/or often cottony eglandular hairs. Leaves cauline, linear to c. ovate in outline, c. 0.5–5 cm long, 1–20 mm wide, glabrous or with glandular and eglandular hairs, lobes mucronate. Bracts 1-seriate, c. equal, mostly herbaceous but with narrow scarious margins and apex; ligules mostly 5–9 mm long but sometimes inconspicuous, white or mauve. Cypselas usually dimorphic (more or less homomorphic only in var. brachyglossa); cypselas of ray florets (excl. var. brachyglossa) laterally compressed, ovate, with broad ribs, lateral faces tuberculate and with apically curled eglandular hairs; cypselas of disc florets obovate, glabrous or hairy, mostly discolorous with the body brown and the vascular ribs and wing-like margins white or yellowish; wing-like margins entire to dissected, flat to somewhat inrolled, edges with apically curled eglandular hairs; pappus 0.05–0.4 mm high.