Inezia

Perennial herbs, with erect stems from woody rootstock. Leaves alternate, entire or pinnatisect, glandular-punctate, pilose. Capitula radiate, many-flowered, solitary, terminal, pedunculate. Involucre campanulate; bracts in 3 or 4 rows, +/- linear, pilose; inner bracts with membranous tip. Receptacle conical, epaleate. Rayflorets female, fertile or sterile, yellow or white; corolla tube short or 0, ciliate and glandular on margin, with obovate, 2- or 3-toothed lamina, 3 to 4 times longer than tube. Discflorets bisexual, fertile, yellow; corolla tube somewhat compressed, winged, glandular on margins, 4-lobed, with 2 lateral lobes somewhat cucullate, dorsal and ventral lobes ovate. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, with ovate, apical appendage. Style terete, somewhat swollen at base, with oblong, truncate branches; cells of stylopodium thick-walled. Cypselas oblong, 4-angled, glandular. Pappus of minute scales or 0. x = 10.