Shrubs, stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple, entire. Inflorescence a terminal, dense, shortly pedunculate campanulate head, 4–15-flowered, surrounded by 3 or 4 rows of appressed imbricate bracts, the innermost ones membranous; flowers narrow with a subtending bract and 1 or 2 bracteoles. Sepals absent. Petals usually 5, free, linear, membranous, ±equal in length to inner bracts. Stamens usually 10; filaments slender, subulate, equal to or well exceeding bracts, long stellate-pilose on adaxial side towards base; anthers versatile, narrowly oblong, minutely glandular-apiculate. Disc lobed. Carpels 5 (–8), free, not apiculate; style subulate, ±equal to stamens; stigma shortly 5-lobed. Seed oblong-reniform, c. 6 mm long, smooth; hilum linear.
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