Annual herbs; indumentum of cottony hairs. Leaves mainly alternate but the lowermost pair(s) opposite, sessile, more or less conduplicate, dilated and often stem-clasping at the base, mucronate and more or less recurved at apex. Capitula homogamous, discoid, solitary, axillary; involucral bracts several, mainly herbaceous, tomentose but with narrow, hyaline margins; receptacle glabrous, ebracteate. Florets bisexual, 5-lobed, 1–7 per capitulum; style branches subulate; stamens 5, anthers tailed. Cypselas subterete, with an attenuate base and with scattered, elongate hairs; pappus uniseriate, of rigid, scale-like bristles usually exceeding the corolla-tube.
A monotypic genus endemic to southern Australia.
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Quinetia. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 798–799. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
