Dewildemania

Perennial herbs with erect, usually tufted, annual stems from a small woody rootstock; roots radiating, thong-like. Stems +/-strict, branching near apex, glabrous, sparsely pilose or pubescent, densely leafy with leaves often grading into phyllaries. Leaves spirally arranged, subsessile, filiform to +/-elliptic or lanceolate, glabrous. Capitula homogamous, 1-many, solitary or in lax terminal corymbiform cymes. Involucre broadly cup-shaped to turbinate-campanulate, florets exserted. Phyllaries several-seriate, larger towards inside, appressed imbricate to somewhat spreading, outer ones often grading into bracts or leaves below, glabrous to pubescent. Receptacle flat or +/-dome-shaped, paleaceous with paleae grading from inner phyllaries and usually exceeding them in length. Corollas purple, narrowly funnel-shaped, regularly 5-lobed; lobes sparsely to densely setose. Anthers with a small triangular hyaline apical appendage, anther thecae brownish with short acute tails at base. Style : arms terete tapering to apex, hairy. Cypselas oblong-turbinate and 4- or 5-ribbed, sometimes somewhat angular and 4-5-sided, setulose to hispid, or glabrous, with scattered large brown cells on sides; pappus 2-seriate, outer series of 5-15 broad or narrow scales, inner series of somewhat larger narrow paleaceous setae.