Description

Shrubs or climbers. Leaves alternate, entire. Capitula discoid, in dense terminal corymbose panicles. Phyllaries in several rows, imbricate. Receptacle shallowly honeycombed, without scales. Corolla yellow or orange. Achenes usually 1-ribbed. Pappus of many scabrid bristles; inner ones longest.

This genus was included within Vernonia in the account in FZ 6(1).