Shrubs or herbs, villous with soft hairs. Leaves alternate, sessile, semiamplexicaul. Capitula solitary, terminal, radiate; involucre campanulate, subtended by several foliage leaves; bracts 1–4-seriate; outer bracts foliaceous, mucronate or pungent; inner bracts coriaceous with scarious margins; receptacle flat or convex, paleate; paleae folded around disc florets. Ray florets female, ligulate, yellow; pappus of short scales. Disc florets bisexual; corolla narrowly cylindrical, 5-lobed; anthers shortly tailed; style branches semi-terete, obtuse; achene sub-cylindrical or compressed; pappus of triangular scales.
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