Glandular hairy annual herbs. Leaves cauline, sessile, alternate, entire. Capitula discoid, minute, many in terminal irregularly-shaped compound heads aggregated on a common flat receptacle, each capitulum subtended by a scarious capitular bract and 4–9 scarious involucral bracts, the whole surrounded by a many-seriate common involucre of radiating white-tipped bracts. Florets 4–9 per capitulum, tubular, bisexual; corolla 5-lobed; anthers tailed at base and with subulate apical appendages; style bilobed, branches truncate, obtuse. Cypselas narrow-obovoid, villous; pappus 1-seriate, of subplumose flattened bristles.
1 species, endemic to mainland Australia.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
