Citation: Kirpiczn., Acta Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. URSS ser. 1, fasc. 9:33 (1950).

Derivation: Greek pseudds, false, and the generic name Gnaphalium, as the resemblance to this genus was considered by Kirpicznikov to be superficial.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Herbs with woolly vestiture; leaves basal and cauline, alternate, sessile, entire.

Inflorescence a dense corymb-like terminal cluster of small subsessile discdid heterogamous capitula; involucres at first subglobose, widely spreading in fruit, c. 3-seriate; bracts scarious, subequal; outer bracts broad, sessile, scarious-hyaline; inner bracts narrower, hyaline, with narrowed rigid herbaceous bases; receptacle shallowly convex, naked; outer florets female; corollas filiform; style branches subterete, truncate, with papillose apices; inner florets bisexual, tubular, 4- or 5-merous, fertile; corolla narrowly cylindrical, glandular; anthers tailed at the base, with short obtuse terminal appendages.

Achenes all similar, terete, finely papillose; pappus uniseriate, of free minutely barbellate bristles, deciduous.

Distribution:  About 40 species in the north and south temperate zones.

Biology: No text

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