Goniocaulon Cass.

Annual, erect, glabrous, branched; stems 4 - 8-angled. Leaves alternate, narrow, toothed. Heads homogamous, oblong, fascicled, corymbose. Flowers all bisexual, fertile, similar tube slender; limb longer, cylindric, 5-fid almost to middle. Involucral bracts pale, many-seriate, narrow, rigid, acute, erect, not spinescent; outer gradually shorter. Receptacle very narrow, paleaceous. Filaments hairy; anther bases sagittate, connate; tails short. Style arms filiform. Achenes oblong, many-ribbed, glabrous. Pappus scales many-seriate, very unequal.

Indo Malayan; One species.

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