Shrubs or subshrubs, viscid, glabrous or sparsely glandular-hairy, aromatic. Leaves alternate, entire, sessile, margins entire and flat or revolute. Inflorescence corymbose. Capitula discoid, homogamous, sessile or shortly pedunculate; involucral bracts multiseriate, the outermost in 2–4 rows, more or less herbaceous, the inner ones in c. 2 rows, each with a petaloid white, papery lamina extending from a narrow claw; receptacle conical, scales present. Florets bisexual; corolla 5-lobed; style branches truncate; anthers tailed. Cypselas 3–4-angled, oblong or obovate, glabrous or papillose-pubescent; pappus absent.
2 species, both endemic to southern Australia.
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Ixodia. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 747–749. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
