垫头鼠麴草属 dian tou shu qu cao shu

Authors: Yousheng Chen & Randall J. Bayer

Herbs, annual. Leaves alternate, flat, with entire margins, tomentose on both surfaces. Capitula many in dense clusters among a group of leaves. Phyllaries papery, hyaline; stereome divided. Receptacle flat, epaleate. Outer florets yellow, filiform. Central florets bisexual, yellow. Anthers with flat appendages. Style branches truncate, with hairs apically. Achenes oblong, with short clavate twin hairs. Pappus bristles capillary, scabrid, not united into a ring.

One species: N Africa, Asia.

Lower Taxon

• Gnomophalium pulvinatum (Delile) Greuter