林荫千里光系 lin yin qian li guang xi

Herbs tall, with leafy stems. Roots tomentose. Leaves unlobed or pinnately lobed, abaxially not tomentose. Capitula radiate or discoid, usually erect; phyllaries 5, 8, 9, or 12-18, usually herbaceous. Ray florets absent, or 1 or 2 or 4-10. Disk florets 3-16. Anthers shortly obtuse-auriculate at base; antheropodia rather short to rather elongated, basally hardly or somewhat dilated but not markedly so.

About 15 species: Asia, Europe; nine species (six endemic) in China.