Perennial tuberous 25-30 cm tall herb with bluish green colour. Tuber oval or oblong shaped with collar covered by pale-brown sheaths. Stem reduced, glabrous, grooved and forms many peduncles which bears a single capitulum. Leaves lanceolate, 10 – 12 X 1.5 – 2 cm, midrib prominent, c. 1 mm wide, veins parallel, glabrous, petiolate, base angustate, margin undulate, apex tapering obtuse slightly curved. Capitulum cylindrical, 3.5 X 1cm, Involucre hairy, triseriate, margin entire membranous; outer ones 15 X 8 mm, ovate, acute; middle ones 20 X 10 mm, oblong, obtuse; inner ones 32 X 12 mm, oblong-linear, obtuse. Florets yellow, exceeding from involucre. Cypsela 15 X 3 mm, 8-ribbed, glabrous, brown, muricate with spine-like out growths, base curved. Pappus uniseriate, entirely plumose, 12 mm long, brown.