Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, usually branching. Hairs simple, eglandular. Leaves all or mostly basal. Inflorescences solitary or cymose. Capitula pedunculate; involucral bracts multiseriate, soft and reflexed at maturity; paleae linear, membranous, filamentous at apex, not enclosing or falling with achene. Florets: ligule yellow or white. Achenes homomorphic or dimorphic, not compressed, beaked or not. Pappus of bristles, persistent (in Australia), homomorphic or slightly dimorphic; bristles plumose or scabridulous; sometimes of 2 types within pappus.
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