Bark thin, except near the base of old trunks and broken by narrow fissures into thin narrow brown or creamy white plate-like scales.
Pappus of the ray minute, coroniform; of the disk-flowers of almost bristle-like scales, more or less dilated and united at base.
Flowers without chaffy glumes, the perianth none or reduced to bristles or sepal-like scales; flowers often monoecious or dioecious; carpels solitary or united.
They are all easily distinguished from the American species by the absence of petal-like scales.
The lobes of the calyx are somewhat leathery in texture, and lanceolate in form; they are very numerous, and they are disposed in several rows, like scales.
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