Annual herbs,  with solitary or branched stems, usually grayish-white hairy. Leaves sessile to petiolate, sessile leaves usually amplexicaul, entire to serrate, lanceolate to ovate. Capitula homogamous, hermaphrodite, ovoid-cylindrical. Receptacle glabrous, flat. Involucre 2-seriate, outer phyllaries leafy, 3-6, longer than or as long as the inner ones. Ligules yellowish or cream-coloured, pink or lilac, periphral ligules longer than involucre, inner ones much shorter. Anthers sagittate at the base. Cypselas cylindric, 5-20-ribbed or occasionally smooth, black or grey, retrorsely barbed,  callous ring present near apices or in the middle,  covered in the upper half with woolly hairs, if callous ring  present near middle, carpophore hollow, tip dome-shaped. Pappus borne on cupular disc, multiseriate,dense, grey or rusty, 5 or more bristles hard and barbed at tip, the rest long fimbriate plumose.

A small genus of 3-4 species (Mabberley, 2008), distributed in Iraq, Iran, Syria, C. Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Western China, and India. Represented by 2 species in Pakistan.