corollas narrowly oblong blackish, pale and empty at base, 5 angle or ribbed pappus of 1 series of capillary bristles, subequal to corolla, white. Achenes narrowly oblong blackish pale and empty at base, 5 angled or ribbed pappus of 1 series of glandular. Herbaceous perennials subshrubs or shrubs partly sessile or stipitate glandular.Leaves opposite simple trullate to obovate petiolate subentire to coarsely toothed.Capitula in corymbs, 5-8 or 50-60 flowered, discoid.Involucres white tubular campanulate.Style branches linear exserted obtuse. Fruit an achene (cypsela) usually bearing a persistent or deciduous pappus pappus sessile or borne on a beak(rostrum). Ovary inferior, 1-celled with one basal ovule style usually divided above into two branches, sometimes entire on male flowers, emerging through anther cylinder, first collecting and exposing pollen,later exposing stigmatic surfaces if bisexual.

Stamens (1-)5, epipetalous, filaments free anthers laterally connate into a cylinder around style (free in one species). Corolla gamopetalous, tabular throughout or dilated or 1(-2)-lipped above,variously truncate or 1-5-toothed at apex (appices) rarely corolla absent. Calyx absent, often replaced on apex of ovary by a pappus of 1 or more series of bristles and / orscales. Individual flowers usually numerous, aggregated and ± sessile (briefly immersed to very shortly stipitate) on a common receptacle and surrunded by an involucre of 1-many series of phyllaries (involucral bracts),the whole comprising a capitulum phyllaries free, rarely connate capitula solitary to very many, rarely agreegrated into secondary capitulum-like glomerules.Receptable sometimes bearing paleae (scales), hairs or bristles.Flowers (florets)epigynous, bisexual, female, m ale(at least functionally so) or neuter (sterile). Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, exstipulate (but sometimes with stipuliform appendages), entire, toothed, lobed or variously dissected. Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, sometimes shrubs, rarely trees, tissues sometimes containing milky sap, glabrous, pubescent, tomentose, spinous or variously sessile- or stipitate-glandular.

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