Lachnospermum

Shrublets, slightly greyish-woolly. Leaves alternate, ericoid, somewhat twisted, in fascicles, involute, adaxially tomentose. Capitula discoid, 16-45-flowered with florets bisexual and fertile, solitary at apices of branches or 2 or 3 together and corymbose. Involucre ellipsoid to campanulate, bracts in +/- 10 rows, lanceolate, tips acute or obtuse, usually reddish, woolly on backs; stereome undivided. Receptacle flat, epaleate or with a few scattered paleae between outer florets; paleae +/- as long as corolla, sometimes sparsely ciliate. Ray florets 0. Disc florets sometimes widened above, with 5 oblong lobes, lobes hairy on outer side. Anthers tailed, with a lanceolate, apical appendage. Style terete, somewhat swollen at base, sometimes seated on annular disc, with linear, truncate branches. Cypselas +/- terete, 4- or 5-angled, hairy on ribs, hairs long and unicellular, sometimes also multicellular, gland-tipped hairs; annulus well-developed. Pappus of shortly barbellate bristles as long as corolla and sometimes overtopping.