Acroptilon Cass.

Herbs, perennial, rhizomatous. Heads homogamous, solitary, terminal. Involucral bracts many-seriate, appendaged. Florets hermaphrodite, tubular. Achenes obovoid, indistinctly striate. Pappus caducous, barbellate or plumose; outer shorter; inner elongate.

Orient, C. Asia; 2 species, 1 in India.

List of Lower Taxa