Erect or diffusedly branched herb; leaves alternate, petiolate, rather membranous, narrowed portion quite entire, toothed pubescent, dirty white beneath; heads homogamous; involucre subhemispheric bracts multiseriate, inner dry or scarious, outer herbaceous, often leafy; receptacle flat, naked or pitted; florets all tubular, equal, slender, campanulate limbs-5, narrow and purple in colour; stamens-5, epipetalous, syngenecious, anthers sagitate; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled, solitary, basal, obtuse, style arms subulate; achenes obtuse, 8-10 ribbed; pappus short, scabrid, fugacious, yellow.