Mycelis Cass.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 331-332

172. Mycelis Cass. 1

Perennial herbs. Stems usually solitary, branched. Leaves lobed, the cauline more or less amplexicaul. Capitula many. Involucral

bracts in 2 rows. Receptacle pitted, without scales. Ligules yellow. Achenes more or less flattened, beaked; pappus of 2 rows of simple hairs, the outer shorter than the inner.