Woolly perennial or annual herbs; stems winged. Leaves mostly basal, entire; cauline leaves alternate. Capitula pedunculate, broadly cupular, terminal, solitary or in loose corymbose groups; involucral bracts in several series, unequal, consisting of ovate papery laminae on successively longer herbaceous claws; receptacle conical with a large persistent scale subtending each floret. Florets bisexual, tubular, more or less equal; corolla shortly 5-lobed, sparsely glandular; anthers tailed at base, with a triangular apical appendage; style bilobed, with linear truncate branches, apices conical and papillose. Cypselas compressed, unequally 4-angled, glabrous; pappus an entire membranous cup with 2–4 short straight awns.
2 species, both from eastern 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.
