Vellereophyton

Annual or perennial herbs, grey- or white-cottony. Leaves entire, sessile, alternate, densely cottony. Capitula heterogamous, disciform, few–many in subcorymbose clusters; involucral bracts 3–5-seriate, woolly, more or less scarious, but with conspicuous, apical, petaloid, white laminae; innermost bracts embracing the adjacent florets; receptacle flat, ebracteate. Outer florets filiform, female, more than inner florets; inner florets bisexual, 5-lobed; stamens 5, anthers tailed; style branches truncate. Cypselas uniform, minutely and sparsely papillate, the papillae sometimes mucilage-producing; pappus of free, caducous bristles which are subplumose in the upper part but denticulate below, basally with patent cilia.