Glabrous glaucous suffrutescent herbs with milky sap; stems stout, simple or branched. Leaves rosulate or cauline, alternate, entire or pinnately incised. Heads homogamous, small, on lateral leafy branches, in corymbs. Involucre narrow, inner bracts equal, in 1 series, outer bracts smaller, few; florets yellow or white, all ligulate, truncate, 5-toothed. Achenes slightly flattened, with 10 longitudinal ribs, tip shortly narrowed. Pappus copious, bristles numerous, in 1 series, slightly scabrous, deciduous.
About seven species in warmer parts of eastern Asia; two species in Taiwan.
Koyama, H. 1995. Crepidiastrum Nakai. In K. Iwatsuki, T. Yamazaki, D. E. Boufford & H. Ohba (eds.). Fl. Jap. 3(b): 13-15.
