Shrubs, rarely small trees, usually multi-stemmed from a lignotuber. Adult leaves simple, entire or toothed, tapered or abruptly contracted to petiole; intermediate leaves simple or sinuate-lobed, pinnatifid or pinnatisect, occasionally present on flowering seasonal growth units. Conflorescence terminal, capitate on basitonic seasonal growth units, not aggregated, with red to pink involucral bracts. Flowers strongly incurved in bud, red, crimson, scarlet or pink, rarely white or yellow; floral orientation diagonal. Receptacle oblique. Tepals coherent in a split tube after anthesis (separating in T. truncata ). Hypogynous glands fused, crescentic to horseshoe-shaped. Pollen presenter strongly oblique. Follicle woody, splayed nearly flat after dehiscence. Seed wing with internal raphe.
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