Vellereophyton

Grey- or white-woolly annual or perennial herbs; stems few to many from crown, prostrate, ascending or erect, simple or branched, leafy. Leaves alternate, small to medium-sized, oblanceolate or spathulate, apex subacute or obtuse, base much narrowed, petiole-like, margins flat, entire, both surfaces thinly or thickly grey- or white-woolly (hair type B), eglandular. Capitula disciform, or discoid in 1 species, very small, few or many in woolly glomerules subcorymbosely arranged at branchlet tips. Involucralbracts in (2)3-5 rows, backs woolly, inner bracts subequal, +/- equalling or exceeding flowers; stereome divided in upper half, lower part concave, embracing adjacent flower, lamina thin, pellucid, sometimes purplish above stereome, tip opaque white, obtuse or rounded, radiating. Receptacle nearly smooth, epaleate. Florets 10-40, yellow, often tipped red; female flowers (0)1-30, either fewer than, +/- equalling, or up to 10 times as many as bisexual florets, narrowly tubular or filiform; bisexual florets tubular, scarcely widened above with 5 deltoid lobes markedly mamillate on outer surface except in 1 species, glandular hairs with biseriate stalk and small 2-celled globular head on backs of all lobes. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate, tails +/- equalling or exceeding filament collar; with small obtuse apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised. Style branches truncate and penicillate, with obtuse sweeping hairs. Cypselas oblong, wall smooth or nearly so or cells imbricate, oblong duplex hairs with swelling cushion frequently present, often myxogenic. Pappus bristles subplumose in upper part with clavate hairs, delicate patent cilia at base, cohering or not.