Euryops

Shrubs or subshrubs, rarely annual or perennial herbs. Leaves sessile, mostly cauline, alternate, crowded, entire to pinnatifid. Capitula radiate, terminal or axillary, solitary or a few together in lax corymbs or panicles, pedunculate; involucral bracts 1- or 2-seriate, fused at base to almost free, equal, herbaceous with scarious margins; receptacle convex, scaly, smooth or pitted. Ray florets female, 1-seriate, yellow, sometimes absent; ligule 3- or 4-lobed, strap-shaped. Disc florets bisexual or functionally male; corolla 5-lobed, yellow; anthers obtuse at base, with lanceolate apical appendages; style with linear-oblong branches, flattened to subterete. Cypselas terete to ellipsoid, ribbed, nerved or smooth, glabrous or pubescent; pappus of few to many caducous bristles, or absent.