Small, erect, wiry, aromatic annual herbs. Leaves cauline, sessile, alternate or some opposite toward base, entire. Capitula sessile, terminal, simple or in compound heads; involucral bracts 2-seriate, unequal, outer ones herbaceous and woolly, inner ones scarious at apex and glabrous or hairy only at apex; receptacle conical, tuberculate, naked. Florets numerous, bisexual, tubular, yellow; corolla deeply 5-lobed; anthers tailed at base, with acute apical appendages; style bilobed, with linear branches, truncate and papillose at apex. Cypselas more or less obovoid, somewhat compressed, rugose-papillose, brown; pappus absent.
2 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.
