Tolpis

Annual or perennial taprooted herbs. Leaves basal and cauline, alternate, entire, toothed or lobed. Capitula in loose terminal corymbose or cymose panicles; involucre cupular, bracts 2- or 3-seriate, subulate, subequal or outer smaller, herbaceous; receptacle flat, naked, pitted. Florets ligulate, bisexual, yellow or inner ones purplish-brown drying green; ligule linear, 5-toothed; anthers sagittate at base, with a minute apical appendage; style bilobed, with linear, obtuse, papillose branches. Cypselas terete to obconical, ribbed, uniform or dimorphic; outer cypselas 4-angled, pubescent, each clasped by the base of an inner involucral bract; pappus 1-seriate, of minute tooth-like bristles; inner cypselas often more compressed, glabrous; pappus 1-seriate, of minute bristles and 2–5 longer ones.