“…Drury, 1970; Hilliard, 1977; Anderberg, 1991; Dillon & Sagástegui‐Alva, 1991; Bayer et al ., 2006; Galbany‐Casals et al ., 2014). The genus, sensu stricto , is now considered restricted to Africa, Madagascar, Europe (around the Mediterranean basin), Macaronesia, and Central Asia and India (see Moeser, 1909; Hind et al ., 2007a,b; Mesfin Tadesse & Reilly, 1995). It is a genus of annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrublets, with alternate often tomentose leaves, with solitary capitula or corymbose inflorescences (of many, often small, capitula).…”