Perennial, non-tuberous, subscapiform, 20 – 30 cm tall herb. Root 5 – 10 cm wide, bearing cotton-like hairs. Stem reduced, branched. Leaves linear, (8-)12 – 14 x 0.2 – 0.4 cm, folded, 3-veined, pubescent, semiamplexicaul, entire, apex tapering and obtuse. Peduncles many, upto 14 cm long, smaller than leaves, leafless, hairy. Capitula 12 – 18 x 5 – 6 mm, buds turbinate. Involucre cylindrical, ± 10 mm at anthesis. Phyllaries covered with grey or black hairs except mid rib, 20-23 in number, entire; outer ones 5 – 6 x 1 – 2 mm, lanceolate, apex acute or acuminate; middle ones 12 – 14 x 2 – 2.5 mm, oblong, acute; inner ones 15 – 18 x 2 – 3 mm, lanceolate, acute. Florets yellow, exceeding from the involucres. Cypselas 12 – 15 mm long, deeply sulcate, ribs muricate or smooth, yellow. Pappus uniseriate, bristles 38-40, 16 – 18 mm long, plumose below, scabrous above, yellow.