Dimorphotheca pluvialis flowers and leaves

The leaves of Dimorphotheca pluvialis are narrowly lanceolate, blunt-tipped and hairy, their margins lobed or blunt-toothed.

The flowerheads grow solitary at stem-tips, their involucres shallowly cup-shaped with one row of bracts and no scales on the receptacle. One whorl of spreading white rays is purple at the base around the also purple disc florets that are tiny, densely together and five-lobed. Open disc florets do show some orange colouring on anthers and inside lobe surfaces though. The lower surfaces of the rays are purplish as well.

Both types of D. pluvialis florets bear fruit: The rays have slender, warty ones, the disc floret fruits are flattened. Neither fruit type of Dimorphotheca has a pappus attached (Manning, 2007; Manning and Goldblatt, 1996; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; Wikipedia).