Schistostephium

Shrubs, subshrubs or perennial herbs, often aromatic, silky villous, pubescent or glabrate. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect, lobed, dentate or occasionally entire. Capitula disciform or discoid, in terminal corymbs, rarely solitary, on long peduncles. Involucre campanulate or subglobose; bracts in several rows. Receptacle convex or ovoid-conical, epaleate or rarely with few marginal paleae. Marginalflorets female, fertile, generally stalked; corolla tubular, compressed, 3- or 4-toothed; or filiform, shorter than style, 2- or 3-fid; or scarcely developed. Discflorets bisexual, fertile, or inner functionally male; corolla tubular, somewhat compressed or bluntly 4-angled, sometimes dilated above, 4-toothed. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate, with suborbicular or ovate apical appendage. Style branches linear, truncate, minutely penicillate. Cypselas oblong-obovate, somewhat compressed or angled in female florets; in disc florets somewhat compressed, 3- or 4-angled, sometimes keeled or narrowly winged; glabrous or hairy, sometimes glandular. Pappus 0.