Citation: Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 492 (1790).

Derivation: Latin centipeda, centipede; referring to the creeping stems.

Synonymy: Myriogyne Less., Linnaea 6:219 (1831).

Common name: Sneezeweeds.

Description:
Annual and perennial herbs, glandular, aromatic; leaves cauline, numerous, alternate, sessile, flat, simple.

Capitula axillary, sessile or subsessile, small, discoid, heterogamous; involucres hemispherical to ovoid; bracts herbaceous with scarious margins, imbricate in 2 subequal series; receptacle convex, naked, pitted; outer florets female, tubular, multiseriate; corollas conical with 2 or 3 minute lobes at the narrowed apex; style branches linear, acute, glabrous.

Achenes clavate to cylindric, with 4 obtuse pubescent ribs; pappus absent; inner florets bisexual, fertile, tubular, 4-merous; anthers obtuse at the base with ovate apical appendages; style branches oblong, truncate with short papillose apices; achenes similar to outer ones.

Distribution:  5 species in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and South America.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Annual; stems weak, prostrate	C. minima 2.
1. Perennials; stems robust, ascending or erect
2. Capitula convex above; female florets 6-8-seriate	C. cunninghamii 1.
2. Capitula flat above; female florets 2- or 3-seriate	C. thespidioides 3.

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