Cymbonotus

Rosetted perennial or annual herbs; indumentum of cottony and longer glandular hairs. Leaves all basally rosetted, pseudopetiolate, toothed to deeply pinnatisect, flat. Capitula radiate, terminal, solitary, pedunculate; involucral bracts 2- or 3-seriate, herbaceous with scarious margins; receptacle slightly convex, with small scarious scales, pitted. Florets yellow; ray florets female, 1-seriate, ligulate; disc florets bisexual, fertile, tubular; corolla deeply 5-lobed; anthers sagittate at base, with an ovate apical appendage; style with short obtuse branches, smooth. Cypselas asymmetrically oblong to obovoid, ridged on posterior side, grooved on anterior side, glabrous or minutely pubescent; pappus absent.