A small slender herb. Leaves linear in outline, entire to shallowly lobed, 3 – 7 x 0.2 – 0.7 cm, lobes 4-7 on each side, 1 – 1.5 mm long; petioles not or narrowly winged. Scapes sparsely hairy. Capitulum 1 – 1.5 cm across. Involucre phyllaries smooth to callose; inner ones 6-10 mm long; outer ones appressed, imbricate, 14-17, greenish, 4 – 5 x 2 – 2.7 mm, ovate, indistinctly marginate. Ligule white with yellowish centre, pinkish striped externally. Anthers not polliniferous. Styles and stigmas greyish-green, drying blackish or dark green. Cypselas greyish, spinulose above, 3.7 – 4.5 mm long, cone 0.7 – 1.1 mm long, gradually formed, subcylindrical; beak 3.2 – 5.5 mm long; pappus 5 – 6.3 mm long, creamish.