Erlangea

Annual or perennial, erect herbs. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile; blade ovate-lanceolate to linear-oblong, crenate, serrate or almost entire, minutely pellucid-dotted, glabrous or hairy. Capitula discoid, with many florets, broadly campanulate to hemispheric, rather long-pedunculate, in lax terminal cymes. Involucre with bracts in +/- 3 rows. Receptacle minutely reticulate-foveolate, +/- plane. Corolla purple, narrowly funnel-shaped, 5-dentate, lobes with apical tuft of hairs. Anthers shortly sagittate; with lanceolate, membranous apical appendage. Style branches filiform, subulate, hirsute, exserted. Cypselas 4- or 5-angled, 4- or 5-ribbed, oblong-obovoid, rounded at apex; pitted and glandular between ribs, +/- pilose on ribs. Pappus of few shortly hairy, caducous bristles. x = 10.