Low erect shrub, without latex. Stems slightly ribbed. Leaves alternate, coarsely and deeply dentate-lobed, pinnately veined, petiolate. Capitula many, in a terminal corymb, ± cylindrical; involucral bracts few, uniseriate; receptacle somewhat convex, pitted, with small scale-like projections. Outer florets female, few, narrowly ligulate; disc florets bisexual, 10–20, tubular to narrowly funnel-shaped. Cypselas terete, glabrous, ribbed; pappus bristles numerous, minutely scabridulous, basally united into a ring.