Hypochaeris

Rosetted, annual to perennial taprooted herbs, with coarse multicellular unbranched hairs; stems simple or branched. Leaves all basal, toothed to pinnatifid. Capitula terminal, solitary or few in loose corymbs; involucre cylindric to conic, bracts 2–5-seriate, linear to lanceolate, unequal (outer ones smallest), herbaceous; receptacle flat, pitted, with scarious caducous scales longer than cypselas. Florets ligulate, bisexual, yellow; ligule linear to oblong, 5-toothed; anthers sagittate at base, with minute apical appendages; style bilobed, with linear, subterete, papillose branches. Cypselas ellipsoid to terete, ribbed, transversely wrinkled or muricate, inner ones beaked, outer ones beaked or truncate; pappus of 1 or 2 series of plumose basally widened bristles, sometimes reduced to scales in outer cypselas, rarely absent, sometimes an outer row of simple bristles also present.