Schkuhria Roth

Annual herbs. Stems erect, strongly branched, striate, with sessile glands, glabrous or sparsely hispid. Leaves simple to pinnately or bipinnately dissected, opposite owards base, alternate above; segments linear, entire. Inflorescences terminal in corymbose cymes. Capitula obconical to hemispherical, pedunculate, heterogamous or homogamous (not in Australia); involucral bracts multiseriate, with margins scarious. Ray florets absent or 1–3, female. Disc florets bisexual; corolla yellow or white; anthers sub-auriculate at base; style branches flattened, with short apical appendages. Achenes elongate, obpyramidal, pilose on angles. Pappus of 8 scales, all obtuse or the midrib of some extended into an awn.