Plants shrubs. leaves alternate, small, dentate. Heads discoid, homogamous, in terminal corybs; phyllaries in 3-4 series, each with a conspicuous median secretory duct; receptacles without bracts. Flowers white or yellow, all bisexual, 5-lobed; pappuses of several seris of barbelllate bristles; anthers with short tails.
Iphionopsis includes 2 species in northeastern Africa and one in Madagascar.