Annual or biennial herbs. Stems erect, strongly branched, longitudinally striate; wings absent. Leaves without spines; rosette leaves pinnatisect; cauline leaves sparse, much reduced, linear, serrate. Capitula pedunculate, heterogamous. Involucral bracts adpressed, entire, mucronate but not spine-tipped. Receptacle flat, not alveolate, densely setose. Corolla pink or mauve; tube slender; lobes linear. Anthers sagittate-caudate; filaments free, smooth to papillose. Style branches connate or separate, erect. Achenes cylindrical, slightly compressed, glabrous; carpopodium lateral. Pappus somewhat persistent, of numerous barbellate ensiform bristles, free to base, outer ones shorter than inner, innermost bristle conspicuously broad-based.
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