Lepidostephium

Perennial herbs, unbranched. Leaves radical and cauline, alternate, sessile, lanceolate to linear, margin revolute, denticulate or entire, glandular-hairy and hairy (hair type B). Capitula radiate, many-flowered, pedunculate, solitary or in loose corymbs. Involucre campanulate; bracts in 6 rows, lanceolate; stereome undivided. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Rayflorets female, violet; corolla tube sparsely glandular, with linear, 3-toothed lamina 3-4 times as long as tube. Staminodes often present. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow; tube funnel-shaped, narrowly campanulate above, with 5 ovate, retrofract lobes. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate; apical appendage flat; endothecial tissue polarised. Style bifid, style branches obtuse, dorsally with obtuse sweeping hairs not reaching furcation; stigmatic surfaces basally separated but apically converging. Cypselas sparsely hairy with elongated twin hairs and glandular hairs. Pappus of free, barbellate, capillary bristles (sometimes of different length) in several rows or of scales.