Ewartia

Mat-forming, functionally dioecious perennial herbs. Leaves cauline, alternate, crowded, imbricate, entire, densely white- or yellow-tomentose. Capitula disciform, solitary (in Victoria) or a few together, terminal, sessile (in Victoria); fertile capitula of mainly outer female florets and a few central bisexual (but functionally female) florets; sterile capitula of mainly bisexual (functionally male) florets, with very few outer females; involucral bracts 2–4-seriate, unequal, outer scarious and cobwebbed at base, inner with spreading white tips; receptacle small, more or less flat, naked. Florets 3–5-lobed, purple; fertile stamens with anthers tailed at base; style bilobed, with truncate branches. Cypselas oblong-fusiform, minutely appressed-pubescent; pappus of barbellate bristles, basally connate, falling separately or in small groups.