Erect subshrub or perennial herb, up to 1 m tall. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, large, > 25 mm long, covered with glandular hairs, margins sharply serrate. Flowerheads discoid, solitary or corymbosely arranged; disc florets plain yellow, corolla lobes erect. Cypselas cylindrical, ribbed; pappus of barbellate bristles and small, obtuse scales.