Small, slender herbs. Petioles not winged. Involucre phyllaries smooth to corniculate, outer ones appressed, dark green to blackish. Ligules yellow. Anthers usually polliniferous. Styles/ stigmas yellow. Cypselas greyish to straw brown, 4.5 – 5.5  mm long, ridged, smooth or almost so; cone indistinct or very gradually formed; beak 0.5 – 1.5  mm long; pappus 3.5 – 4.5  mm long, yellowish or brownish-pinkish.