Prostrate annual herbs, sparsely woolly, glandular hairs sometimes present. Leaves mainly alternate but the lowest pairs opposite, sessile, entire. Inflorescence of compound heads subtended by conspicuous woolly bracts c. equal to or longer than the head, midribs of bracts longer than the wing-like, hyaline margins. General receptacle branched; capitula discoid, homogamous; receptacle ebracteate; capitular bracts in c. 2 rows, mainly hyaline but with green midribs, woolly, the upper margins laciniate. Florets 1 or 2 per capitulum, bisexual; corolla tubular, 5-lobed; stamens 5, anthers tailed; style branches truncate. Cypselas sparsely papillate, the apices usually with intertwined hairs; pappus of subplumose, basally connate bristles.
An endemic Australian monotypic genus.
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Lemooria. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 812–812. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
