Pasaccardoa

Annual herbs, or suffrutices with annual stems from a woody rootstock; vegetative indumentum of fine flagelliform hairs each consisting of an appressed filamentous terminal cell borne on a uniseriate many-celled stalk. Leaves alternate, narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic, somewhat discolorous, densely araneose-lanate on undersurface, gland-dotted. Capitula heterogamous, radiate, few to many, solitary and terminal on branches sometimes also subsessile along branches, subtended by leaf-like bracts. Phyllaries many, many-seriate, araneose-lanate to puberulous, at least outer ones subulate-aristate with stiff, squarrose or recurved apices, or lamina straight and pungent. Receptacle deeply alveolate; paleae absent. Rayflorets neuter, stamens and style absent or rudimentary, corollas deep red or creamy white; rays erect, 3-fid, inner lip wanting; ovary rudimentary, pappus of many narrow scales. Discflorets deep red or creamy white, bisexual and regular. Anthers : apical appendages narrowly triangular, theca bases sagittate with tapering-acute fimbriate or ciliolate tails. Style deeply 2-fid, apices subobtuse with a subdistal fringe of hairs. Cypselas subcylindric, 10-ribbed with many stiff white hairs; pappus several-seriate of many spreading narrowly lanceolate scales.