Annual or perennial herbs or ± shrubs, bearing white tomentum. Leaves in basal rosettes or cauline and alternate, sessile or petiolate, spathulate to oblanceolate, entire to pinnatisect, tomentose to sparsely arachnoid beneath. Capitula solitary, on terminal or on axillary peduncles, radiate. Involucres more or less hemispheric. Phyllaries free, unequal, multiseriate. Receptacles flat, alveolate, epaleate. Ray florets uniseriate, female, fertile, ligules 3–lobed, yellow, orange, brick–red, white, cream, pink, purple, violet or blue. Disc florets bisexual, fertile, rarely inner ones female and sterile. Corolla deeply 5–lobed. Anthers with ovate apical appendages, style branches smooth or papillate. Cypselas oblong–obovoid to ± obconical, ventrally rugose, smooth, dorsally glabrous or hairy, 3–5–ribbed or winged, often tufted hairy at the base. Pappus scales scarious, in 2–series.

A genus of about 60 species, distributed in South Africa, Namibia and Angola; represented in Pakistan by single ornamental species grown in gardens, naturalized elsewhere.