Annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves toothed or ternately divided. Inflorescence a simple umbel, surrounded by a radiating involucre of white to slightly coloured, often woolly to tomentose bracts; outer flowers often male, inner flowers bisexual and/or female. Sepals lobed or truncate; petals spathulate or orbicular, or absent; nectary often not quite at base of style; fruit ovate, compressed, 5-ribbed; carpophore absent.
15 species: 14 in Australia and 1 in New Zealand.
Source:
Jobson, P.K. (1999). Actinotus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 264–265. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
