Annual or perennial herbs or sub-shrubs, erect, ascending or decumbent. Leaves 1-or 2-pinnatisect. Capitula radiate (in Australia), disciform or discoid, solitary or few; involucre 2–4-seriate, with bracts gradational in length; receptacle paleate. Ray florets female, fertile or sterile. Disc florets bisexual; corolla 5-lobed. Achenes slightly dimorphic in length, slightly compressed, with inner face ribbed, glabrous. Pappus absent.