Annual, rarely perennial, herbs, often with glandular and cobwebbed-eglandular hairs. Leaves basal or cauline, sessile, alternate, entire. Capitula discoid, minute, many in terminal subglobose compound heads, each capitulum subtended by a scarious bract and 3–7 scarious involucral bracts, all aggregated on a common receptacle, the whole surrounded by several series of scarious or coloured bracts. Florets 1–6 per capitulum, tubular, bisexual; corolla 3–5-lobed; anthers tailed at base and with subulate apical appendages; style bilobed, branches truncate, obtuse. Cypselas subterete, smooth, hairy; pappus of 1 or 2 (rarely 3 or 4) fine bristles, 1 or 2 microscopic scales, or absent.
8 species, all endemic to mainland Australia.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
