Annual to perennial, pubescent to  glabrous, simple or branched herbs. Leaves petiolate or upper ones sessile, alternate, lower cauline leaves  lyrately pinnatifid, upper ones ovate, serrate, undivided. Capitula homogamous, numerous, borne in a corymbose open panicle. ligulate, 8-15-flowered, pedunculate. Involucre  cylindrical-campanulate to campanulate.  Phyllaries 2-seriate, outer phyllaries 3-5, ovate, very small; inner ones linear-lanceolate, much longer. Receptacle flat, naked. Ligules yellow, slightly longer than inner  phyllaries. Stamen filaments smooth with  apically long-appendaged  and basally sagittate anthers. Style with slender, stigmatic branches evenly hairy.

Cypselas oblanceolate, slightly compressed, curved, finely ± 20-ribbed, beakless. Pappus absent.

A monotypic genus (Mabberley, 2008),   distributed in North Africa, Europe and Central Asia to South West Asia; introduced in Australasia and North and South America.