Waitzia

Annual herbs, cottony or cobwebby, with septate flagellate hairs, stalked glandular hairs sometimes present. Leaves alternate, sessile, margins mostly recurved on drying, uppermost leaves grading into linear capitulum-subtending bracts. Capitula discoid, homogamous, solitary or a few together. Involucral bracts multiseriate; outer and intermediate bracts narrowly clawed, with scarious, entire to serrate, white, violet, yellow or orange laminae; inner bracts erect, shorter than or exceeding intermediate bracts, claws with scarious margins, laminae shorter than but otherwise similar to those of intermediate bracts, or hyaline and minute; receptacle rounded, ebracteate. Florets tubular, bisexual, numerous; corolla 5-lobed; stamens 5, anthers tailed; style apices c. shortly conical, papillose. Cypselas compressed ellipsoid, with long narrow beaks and usually mucilage-producing cells; pappus of numerous barbellate bristles.