Doellia

Perennial herbs or subshrubs. Leaves alternate, linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, auriculate but not decurrent. Capitula broadly campanulate, disciform, terminal, solitary or few together in a lax corymb. Phyllaries imbricate, narrowly linear. Receptacle flat, without scales. Outer florets female; corolla yellow or purplish, filiform, 3-lobed; disk florets bisexual; corolla yellow or purplish, 5-lobed. Anthers tailed. Style 2-fid; style branches with obtuse sweeping hairs reaching far below the fork. Achenes oblong, with conspicuous longitudinal red resin ducts; epidermis cells without elongated crystals. Pappus of free barbellate bristles in 1 row and inconspicuous crown-shaped ridge.