Family: Asteraceae

Description: 

Perennial herbs. Laves simple, opposite, 3-7 x 0.5-1.5 cm, lanceolate to oblanceolate, oblong, serrate above the middle; sessile or shortly petiolate. The inflorescence is loosely paniculate with the heads appearing opposite to the bracts in irregular sympodial cymes. Head homogamous, flowers bisxeual. Flowers usually 5, ca, 1.2 cm long; corolla tubular, white with light purple shade at throat, lobes 5, spreading. Achenes ca, 3 mm long; pappus of 20 bristles. .