Ethuliopsis

Perennial herbs or subshrubs; stems terete, not winged, glabrous. Leaves cauline, alternate, sessile. Capitula, pedunculate, globose to ovoid, in terminal panicles, on some plants disciform and heterogamous, on other plants homogamous with disc florets only; involucral bracts 3–6-seriate, unequal, cartilagineous; receptacle naked, pitted, flat in homogamous capitula and hemispherical in heterogamous capitula. Heterogamous capitula with outer florets female, tubular, filiform, 3-lobed; inner florets bisexual, functionally male, narrowly campanulate, 5-lobed; anthers tailed at base, with ovate apical appendages; style branches hairy, extending down shaft. Cypselas cylindric, with a single longitudinal rib, glabrous, not glandular; pappus a minute rim on marginal florets and of 2–6 barbellate bristles on disc florets.