Small herbs, 10-20 cm tall, sparsely hairy below. Leaves with pink petiole, 5-20 x 1-3 cm, pinnatisect, lobes patent, triangular, acute, c. 1.2 cm long, 4-7 on each side, terminal lobe longer. Scapes several, as long as or little longer than leaves, hairy above. Involucre greenish, c. 1.5 cm long; outer phyllaries ovate or broadly lanceolate, c. 11 mm long, reddish, with or without scarious margin, inner ones little longer. Capitula c. 4 cm across; ligules yellowish, peripheral ones with violaceous stripes outside. Anthers polliniferous. Styles and stigmas brownish-green. Cypselas 3.2 mm long, stramineous, spinulose above, rugose in the centre, smooth at the base, with 0.8 mm long cone; beak 7 mm long; pappus white, 5-6 mm long.