Comborhiza

Shrublet or suffrutex. Stems arising from subterranean, thick woody tubers or rhizomes. Leaves alternate or crowded on brachyblasts, sessile, straight, adaxially concave, glabrous above, glandular-hairy below, margin entire. Capitula radiate, solitary, on pedunculoid few-leaved stems or on long leafless peduncles. Involucral bracts with spathulate laminas. Receptacle flat or flat to convex, epaleate. Ray florets female, yellow with purple bands dorsally, in one row, fewer than disc florets. Cypselas as in disc florets. Pappus of narrow scales. Disc florets bisexual, corolla yellow. Anthers ecalcarate, with short tails; endothecial tissue polarised; apical appendage acute. Style branches truncate with obtuse sweeping hairs apically. Cypselas narrowly elliptic with 5 or 3 vascular bundles, glabrous or sparsely hairy with elongated twin hairs. Pappus of 5 barbellate capillary bristles and narrow scales, or of +/- connate scales only.