Kippistia

Perennial low shrubs, aromatic. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, entire. Capitula solitary, terminal, shortly pedunculate; involucral bracts in 2–3 series; ray florets shortly ligulate, yellow, female (sometimes sterile), in 2–5 series; style branches glabrous, terete; disc florets bisexual or functionally male, 3–10-seriate, corolla 5(rarely 4)-lobed, yellow; anthers obtuse at base, with a short, acute, membranous terminal appendage; style branches semi-terete, papillose. Cypselas of ray florets c. cylindric, narrowed toward base, smooth or weakly ribbed, glabrous; pappus bristles in a single series, free or partly fused, barbellate; cypselas of disc florets cylindric, pithy; pappus a fimbriate collar of fused bristles, sometimes with a few longer bristles.