Tenrhynea

Shrubby perennial; branches closely leafy. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, margins entire, sessile, bases decurrent in long narrow wings, green above drying grey, with thin skin-like indumentum, white-tomentose below (hair type B). Capitula disciform, cylindric, in small terminal clusters, often further aggregated into spreading corymbose panicle. Involucralbracts in several rows, imbricate, graded, inner ones with stereome undivided, tips shortly exceeding flowers, radiating, opaque milk-white or occasionally pink. Receptacle flat, paleate; paleae resembling inner involucral bracts. Florets 17-26, 3-11 female, corolla purple, narrowly tubular or filiform; 10-17 bisexual, outnumbering female flowers, corolla purple, tubular below, campanulate above, 5-lobed, all lobes with glandular hairs on backs. Anthers ecalcarate, caudate, tails shorter or longer than filament collar; with lanceolate apical appendage; endothecial tissue polarised. Style branches with slightly rounded tips, with short, obtuse, sweeping hairs extending briefly down backs. Cypselas oblong, with elongate duplex hairs with basal swelling cushion, myxogenic. Pappus bristles scabrid above, cilia +/- fused, shaft scabridulous, base nude, not cohering, caducous.