Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate. Capitula solitary, heterogamous;
florets tubular; outer neuter; inner bisexual.
Phyllaries many-seriate, imbricate, with a pectinate or spiny, apical appendage. Receptacle densely setose; setae twisted. Achenes ± laterally flattened, glabrous when mature. Pappus many-seriate, of persistent, unequal, barbellate, scale-like setae. Worldwide: c. 500 species, Europe, Mediterranean, the Middle East and Eurasia with a few species in tropical Africa, North America and Australia DRC: 1 taxon. |
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