Asteriscus

Annual or perennial shrubs or herbs, villous with soft hairs. Leaves basal and cauline, alternate, sessile, semiamplexicaul, entire, slightly dentate or dentate towards apex. Capitula campanulate, solitary, terminal, subsessile or pedunculate, radiate; involcral bracts 1–4-seriate, unequal; outer bracts foliaceous with a coriaceous base, mucronate or pungent; inner bracts coriaceous with scarious margins; receptacle flat or convex, scales present. Ray florets 1–3-seriate, female, ligulate, yellow or cream; disc florets bisexual, tubular, fertile, 5-lobed, yellow and brownish; anthers sagittate or shortly tailed at based, with lanceolate or narrow triangular apical appendage; style-branches semi-terete, with acute tubercles dorsally. Cypselas sub-cylindrical or compressed, densely to moderately strigose-hispid; pappus 1-seriate, of free triangular scales.