A small, 10 – 20 cm tall herb with glabrous leaf axils. Leaves glabrous, 3 – 5 x 0.5–1.5 cm, entire to little sinuately lobed, obtuse, few leaves pinnatilobed; petioles 0 – 2 cm long, unwinged. Scapes 3, very thin, slender, 10 – 15 cm long, completely glabrous. Capitula c. 1.5 cm across. Involucre narrow, 10 x 6 mm, glabrous, smooth, brownish-green; outer phyllaries 7-8, lanceolate, appressed, not marginate; inner ones 7-8, linear, 2-3-times longer than outer. Ligules c. 15, yellow. Anthers polliniferous. Styles and stigmas yellowish-brown or dull yellow. Cypselas c. 3 mm long, fusiform, attenuate on both sides, spinulose above, rugose at the base, brownish; cone somewhat cylindrical, 1.5 – 2 mm long, gradually formed; beak 3-4 mm long; pappus c. 5 mm long, barbellatus, white.