Citation: Wendl., Coll. Pl. 2:13 (1808).

Derivation: After Karl Friedrich Waitz, 1774-1848, privy councillor of the duchy of Saxe-Altenburg.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herbs with cobwebby hairs, glandular hairs often also present; leaves mostly cauline, alternate, sessile, entire, flat.

Capitula in terminal corymbs, pedicellate to subsessile, homogamous; involucres ovoid to hemispherical, many-seriate; bracts with papery brightly-coloured laminae on successively longer filiform claws, the innermost with linear claws and reduced laminae; receptacle flat, naked, pitted; florets numerous, bisexual, fertile, tubular, 5-merous; corollas narrowly funnel-shaped, yellow; anthers minutely tailed at the base, with lanceolate terminal appendages; style branches subterete, linear, truncate, with very short conical papillose apices.

Achenes somewhat compressed, with a long distinct filiform beak; pappus uniseriate, of barbellate to plumose bristles.

Distribution:  7 species in Australia, mostly Western Australian.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Capitula ovoid to campanulate; bracts acuminate, narrow, hardly imbricate	W. acuminata 1.
1. Capitula broadly hemispherical; bracts acute, imbricate	W. citrina 2.

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