Microseris D.Don

Perennial or annual scapose herbs with a short erect or rarely rhizomatous underground stem bearing 1–several fleshy brown to white roots. Hairs simple, multicellular, eglandular, furfuraceous on leaves, scapes and involucres, black-villous on petiole and scape bases and involucres. Leaves all or chiefly basal; petiole winged, widened at base. Scapes naked or bracteate; capitula solitary, nodding in bud; involucral bracts herbaceous, mostly in 2 unequal series; outer bracts much shorter than inner ones; receptacle epaleate, pitted. Florets: ligule yellow; anthers caudate; pollen mass orange. Style branches short, obtuse. Achenes narrowly terete, ribbed, not beaked. Pappus parts 2–66, persistent, each with a basal scale prolonged into a scabrid to plumose awn or rarely some or all parts capillary throughout.