Lagenifera Cass.

Herbs, scapigerous. Heads heterogamous, solitary. Involucral bracts sub-2-seriate. Receptacle convex, naked. Ray florets female, fertile 1 - 3-seriate, ligule white, long or short. Disc florets bisexual, often sterile, tubular, limb 5-cleft. Anther bases obtuse, entire. Style arms of bisexual flowers narrow, flattened, tips triangular or lanceolate. Achenes of ray florets compressed, beaked, margins thickened; of disc florets narrower and sterile. Pappus absent.

C. America, Japan, Borneo and Australia; ca 30 species, 1 in India.

List of Lower Taxa