Shrubs, undershrubs or perennial herbs. Leaves usually fleshy, entire or serrate. Capitula arranged in paniculate corymbs, sometimes solitary, radiate or disciform. Involucre ecalyculate, phyllaries ± connate. Ray florets female, yellow, disc florets functionally male, yellow. Anthers ecaudate. Cypselas dimorphic, ellipsoid-oblong, usually densely pubescent. Pappus bristles many, off white.

1.	+	Leaves oblong or elliptic or ± broadly lanceolate, 20-40 x 5-18 mm. Involucre (8-) 9-14 mm long.	1. H. intermedia
	–	Leaves narrowly linear, 15-30 x 1-1.5 mm. Involucre 6-7.5 mm long.	2. H. angustifolia