Tarchonanthus

Trees or shrubs, dioecious, often aromatic. Leaves alternate, petiolate or subsessile, persistently tomentose or lanate beneath, entire to coarsely irregularly serrate or 3-lobed towards apex. Synflorescences in terminal or axillary panicles, the whole usually tomentose-lanate. Capitula discoid; florets yellowish. Involucre subcylindric, broadly campanulate or subglobose; bracts in 1 or 2 rows. Receptacle flat or somewhat convex, honeycombed, epaleate, usually with long, silky hairs. Malecapitula with corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, villous or lanate outside, lobes 5, recurved; anthers calcarate and caudate, apical appendage long, flat; endothecial tissue polarised; style narrowly terete, simple or minutely bifid; ovary abortive; pappus 0. Femalecapitula with corolla shorter than ovary, villous or lanate outside, 4- or 5-lobed; style branches short, flat, ovate; cypselas +/- flattened, obovoid or ellipsoid, densely lanate; pappus 0.