H. Beentje (2005) Conyza. Flora of Somalia 3: 522-524
Plants usually annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or in a basal rosette, entire to pinnatifid, , bases usually semi-amplexicaulous, margins serrate or dentate. Inflorescences in cymes, these in turn in corymbose or paniculate clusters, rarely of solitary flowers. Capitula disciform or shortly radiate; marginal flowers: many, in several rows, tubular and filiform, sometimes with a short ray, white or yellow; styles with short, linear branches; central flowers: bisexual; corollas usually few, yellow or white; tubes cylindrical below, funnel-shaped above, 5-lobed; anthers obtuse at base, with triangular apical appendages, lanceolate to triangular and pappilose. Achenes sometimes flattened, usually pubescent, ribbed; pappuses of many fine, barbellast bristles, often fragile.
Conyza includes about 60 species which grow in the tropics and subtropics. Several species are weedy and widespread. The Flora of Somalia reports five species from Somaliland, some of which are also known from Somalia.