Perennial, woody, erect herbs or shrubs, with translucent, inconspicuously stipitate, punctate glands and simple, ±moniliform, or unevenly T-shaped hairs. Leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, alternate, ovate-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, or lanceolate to oblanceolate. Capitula homogamous, pedunculate, solitary or laxly corymbose; involucral bracts c. 12, 2–3-seriate, herbaceous, foliaceous, imbricate, glandular, becoming glabrous; receptacle flat, paleate or epaleate. Florets few to numerous, bisexual, all fertile, purple, pink or white; corolla exceeding the involucre, campanulate; limb 5-lobed almost halfway; tube shorter to longer than lobes, with sessile glands; anther bases sagittate, obtuse, appendages with somewhat thickened cell walls; style without nodes below acute, hairy branches. Achenes prominently 10-grooved and ribbed, glandular and hairy; raphides absent. Pappus absent or of a few short, deciduous, uniseriate bristles.
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