Herbs, annual, dwarf, glabrous. Stems ascending to spreading, multibranched. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate or entire. Capitula disciform, small, globose, several, fascicled in divaricately branched corymbiform synflorescences, sessile or shortly pedunculate. Involucre hemispheric; phyllaries 2-seriate, herbaceous, subequal, broad, obtuse, margin scarious, 3-veined, usually slightly shorter than disk. Receptacle flat or convex, glabrous, with fine processes. Florets yellow; female fertile, multiseriate, corolla minutely tubular or lacking, glandular; disk florets functionally male, few, sterile, corolla tubular, tube short, limb funnelform, 4-lobed, lobe margins thickened, sometimes glandular; anther base obtuse, auriculate; style branches short, appressed. Achenes slightly compressed, small, minutely glandular or sparsely scabridulous, veined. Pappus of 6-13 short barbellate bristles in 1 series, of disk florets thin or absent.

Three species: SE Asia; one species in China.

(Authors: Chen Yilin (陈艺林 Chen Yi-ling); Luc Brouillet)