Schkuhria

Annual herbs, much branched, usually sparsely glandular-pubescent. Leaves alternate or opposite below, sessile, dissected or rarely simple, segments narrow, margin entire. Capitula radiate or discoid, several-flowered, on long peduncles, terminal and axillary, often corymbosely arranged. Involucre turbinate or campanulate; bracts in 1-3 rows. Receptacle epaleate. Ray florets, when present, female, fertile; corolla yellow, strap-shaped. Style branches linear, obtuse. Disc florets bisexual, fertile; corolla yellow or tinged reddish, tubular below, campanulate above, 5-toothed. Anthers with bases and apical appendage both obtuse. Style branches linear, apex rotundate-truncate or shortly appendaged, papillose outside, at least near tips. Cypselas narrowly obpyramidal, usually 4-angled, glabrous or pubescent. Pappus of 8-10 scales, with prominent midrib sometimes excurrent as awn. x = 10 (8, 11, 12) (polyploidy, B-chromosomes-1 report).