Lasiospermum

Annual or perennial herbs, sometimes decumbent, rooting at nodes. Leaves alternate, long pilose to glabrous, pinnatisect to bipinnatisect, rarely entire. Capitula radiate or discoid, pedunculate, solitary or paniculate, terminal. Involucral bracts in 2-4 rows, narrowly oblong to elliptic to almost quadrate, with membranous margin and apex, long pilose or felted to glabrous. Receptacle flat or convex, paleate; paleae membranous. Rayflorets when present, few, female; corolla white or reddish; tube sometimes flattened, with short or long lamina. Discflorets numerous, corolla sometimes reddish; tube campanulate above, with 5 ovate lobes. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate; with lanceolate apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised. Style terete, discoid at base, with linear, truncate branches. Cypselas oblong-ovate, slightly flattened, smooth, dark yellow-brown, copiously woolly. Pappus 0. x = 9, 10.