Perennial herbs or low growing shrubs. Leaves alternate or congested on short shoots. Capitula homogamous discoid, few-flowered, solitary or few together on axillary shoots. Involucre campanulate. Receptacle naked. Florets actinomorphic, deeply 5-lobed. Anther sagittate with pilose tails. Cypsela obovate-oblong, 5-ribbed, pappus bristles white or red.