Erect perennials. Branches numerous from the caudex, to 50 cm long, glabrous. Leaves cauline, crowded at base of plant, opposite, sessile and shortly stem-clasping at base (forming an interpetiolar cup on young stems), simple. Inflorescence corymbose. Capitula few to solitary, discoid, on peduncles 30–50 mm long; subtending bracts 2–4; involucral bracts free, few, ±in a single series, oblong to lanceolate, acute, weakly striate, with margins not scarious; receptacle flat; paleae lanceolate, abruptly shortly acuminate or acute. Disc florets bisexual, 3–11, 5-lobed. Achenes obovoid, compressed, broadly winged when mature, slightly cucullate, glabrous, smooth, without ribs; body dark brown; wings 2 (rarely 3), yellow-brown; beak absent. Pappus of 2 (rarely 3) awns; awns erect or divaricate, smooth or with few retrorse barbs at apex.
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