Marasmodes

Shrubs. Leaves alternate, sometimes clustered, entire or occasionally lobed, linear, +/- ericoid, glandular-punctate, glabrous. Capitula discoid, few-flowered, sessile, closely aggregated at stem tips, rarely solitary. Involucre subcampanulate or spindle-shaped; bracts in 6 or 7 rows, ovate, oblong or lanceolate, sometimes inner or all with membranous tip. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Discflorets bisexual; corolla tube glandular, swollen and with thick vascular strands, +/- campanulate above, with 5 ovate lobes. Anthers short and comparatively wide, ecalcarate and ecaudate; with linear or lanceolate, apical appendage. Style terete, discoid at base, with linear, truncate branches. Cypselas 5-ribbed, glandular, with myxogenic cells mainly abaxially; ribs with thick vascular strands. Pappus of 7-10 oblong, flat, whitish, adaxially longer scales.