Manual of the New Zealand Flora.

Tribe 6. SenecionideÆ

Tribe 6. SenecionideÆ.

Heads heterogamous, radiate or discoid; or with the ray deficient and then homogamous. Involucral bracts usually in a single row, with a few small ones at the base. Receptacle usually naked. Anther-cells sometimes sagittate at the base, but with no true tails. Style-branches truncate or appendiculate. Pappus of capillary bristles.

Herbs. Heads discoid. Female florets very slender, filiform, in 2–3 series 19. Erechthites.
Shrubs. Female florets ligulate; lamina short, furnished at the base with 1 or 2 minute lobes. Achenes terete, papillose 20. Brachyglottis.
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Female florets ligulate, never filiform 21. Senecio.