Corvisartia Mérat.

Perennials or annuals. Stems not winged, sometimes with decurrent leaves, with or more frequently without resin canals. Leaves basal and cauline, alternate, simple, usually sessile, sometimes in a basal rosette, margins usually serrate to dentate, sometimes entire. Capitula heterogamous radiate to miniradiate, heterogamous disciform, or homogamous discoid, borne singly or in open, corymbiform arrays. Involucres hemispheric or campanulate, [5-]10-40 mm in diam.; phyllaries persistent, in 4-7+ series. Receptacles flat or convex, smooth or alveolate, epaleate. Ray florets (15-)50-150+, female, fertile; corolla yellow to orange, lamina 10-30+ mm. Disk florets bisexual, mostly (50-)100-250+; corolla yellow, lobes 5; epidermis with straight cell walls, without needlelike crystals. Anthers ecalcarate, with branched tails; endothecial tissue radial; cells of antheropodium generally longer than wide. Pollen spines with a cavity. Style branches with acute sweeping hairs, not reaching furcation. Achenes ellipsoid or cylindric, ribbed; epidermis with elongated crystals. Pappus persistent, of basally connate, barbellate bristles or setiform scales usually in 1 series. x = 8, 9, 10.

Inula taiwanensis S. S. Ying (Mem. Coll. Agric. Natl. Taiwan Univ. 29(1): 78. 1989) could not be treated here because no material was seen by the present authors.

About 100 species: Africa, Asia, Europe; 14 species (two endemic) in China.