Erect, upto 90 cm tall, perennial herbs with stiff bristly and anchor-shaped hairs. Leaves basal and cauline, lower cauline leaves subsessile, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 8 – 15 x 1 – 3 cm, hairy on both sides, basally cuneate, coarsely toothed on margins, acute or obtuse at apices; upper stem leaves sessile, oblong to lanceolate, smaller than lower, acute. Capitula several, ±densely corymbose. Involucre ovoid-urceolate, 10 – 11 mm long. Phyllaries 3-seriate, outer ones lanceolate, 3 – 5 x c. 1 mm, acute, sparsly bristly hairy; inner phyllaries linear, 9 – 11 x 1 – 1.3 mm, scarious-margined, acute. Florets with 3.5 – 4 mm long apically hairy corolla tube, ligules narrowly oblong, 5 – 6 x 1 – 1.2 mm, yellow. Cypselas brown, 4 – 5 mm long, grooved lengthwise, transversely rugulose.