Antithrixia

Perennial shrublets with young branches cobwebby. Leaves in fascicles, alternate or decussate, linear, sessile, involute, adaxially tomentose, apically mucronate, margins entire. Capitula radiate, solitary, terminal, many-flowered. Involucralbracts imbricate, linear-oblong, scarious. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Ray florets female, fewer than disc florets, yellow with purple bands dorsally, cypsela and pappus as in disc florets. Disc florets bisexual, corolla tube cylindrical, 5-toothed, yellow, lobes erect. Anthers ecalcarate, with short tails. Style bifid, branches truncate with obtuse sweeping hairs apically, stigmatic surface separated. Cypselas rod-like, with 10 vascular bundles, glabrous or with a few scattered twin hairs. Pappus of rigid, subscabrid bristles in 1 row, sometimes connate at base.