Annual herbs with ascending, simple or dichtotomously branched stems. Leaves simple, radical and cauline, sinuate toothed to variously lobed or pinnatisect. Capitula small, few-flowered, few to many, borne in cymose synflorescence. Receptacle glabrous. Involucre small, campanulate.  Phyllaries 2-seriate, outer, very short, inner ones long, linear-lanceolate, thickened and hardened at fruiting and enclosing outer cypselas but not connate. Florets  slightly shorter than inner phyllaries, ligules yellow. Cypselas dimorphic,  incurved, thickened at the base, minutely hairy, all or atleast some, especially inner ones, apically prolonged to form a long  beak. Pappus of small bristles or fimbriate-ciliate.

A small genus of 4 species (Mabberley, 2008),  distributed in Central. and SW. Asia to China. Represented in Pakistan by two species.