Rhizomatus, perennial herbs. Stem erect or ascending, 15–30 cm high, simple or ‎corymbosely branched above, sparsely – densely hirsute – appressed hairy, ‎mixed with short capitate glandular hairs, mostly in upper half. Leaves ‎appressed – stiff hairy, basal leaves attenuate into 1–1.5 cm long petiole, ‎lamina spathulate – oblanceolate, 4.5–8 (–9) cm long , 1 – 1.5 cm wide, acute – ‎obtuse, entire, cauline leaves lanceolate – ovate, acute – acuminate, sessile, ‎semi–amplexicaul, 1.5–6 cm long, 0.5–1.2 cm wide. Capitula solitary or 2–5 in ‎laxly corymbose synflorescence, 2 – 3.5 cm across. Involucre 1.5–2.5 cm in ‎diameter, green or purplish tinged, sparsely to densely hirsute, hairs multicellular, ‎mixed with short stipitate glands. Phyllaries 2–3–seriate, subequal, linear–‎lanceolate, acute–acuminate, outer ones 6–7 mm long, 0.9–1 mm wide, inner ‎phyllaries 8–9 mm long, 0.5–0.75 mm wide. Ray florets 90 – 150, light–dark ‎pink, mauve – purplish or white, 10–16 mm long, corolla tube ca 3 mm long ‎with small appressed hairs on the upper half of the tube, ligule convoluted when ‎dry, flat, ca 0.5 mm wide, apically bidentate. Eligulate female florets absent. ‎Disc florets yellow, 4.5–5 mm long, tube 1.5–2 mm long, sparsely hairy, limb ‎‎2.5–3 mm long including ca 0.5 mm long lobes. Anthers and style exserted. ‎Cypselas ca 3 mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, brown, oblanceolate–oblong, ‎compressed, sericeous or stiff, somewhat long appressed hairy, hilum sub–basal. ‎Outer bristles of pappus very short, ca 0.3 mm long, inner ones 4.5–5 mm long, ‎brownish.‎