Anisothrix

Shrublets or shrubs, glabrous. Leaves alternate, sessile, small, glabrous or with scattered glandular hairs, margins entire or dentate to almost pinnatifid. Capitula discoid, solitary, terminal. Involucre cyathiform to slightly campanulate; bracts in many rows, imbricate; stereome undivided. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Discflorets bisexual and fertile; corolla yellow; tube with narrow, cylindric, 5-lobed limb; lobes strongly retrofract when dry; glandular-hairy or glabrous. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; apical appendage acute, flat; endothecial tissue polarised. Style bifid; style branches obtuse with obtuse sweeping hairs dorsally, not reaching furcation; stigmatic surface basally separated but apically confluent. Cypselas cylindric, terete, sparsely to moderately hairy with elongated twin hairs. Pappus of few, free barbellate bristles in 1 row and outer row of narrow scales. x = 7.