Cacalia L.

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 : 206

99. Cacalia L. 1

Perennial herbs with alternate leaves. Leaves not or shortly sheathing at the base. Capitula in a raceme or panicle; involucral bracts in one row, usually without supplementary bracts. Receptacle usually flat, without scales. Florets 1-20, all tubular, hermaphrodite and fertile. Style-branches long, subclavate. Achenes more or less cylindrical, unbeaked, ribbed; pappus of simple, scabrid hairs.