Erect, ± suffrutescent herbs with milky sap and stout, simple or branched mostly leafy stems, sometimes plants stoloniferous. Leaves alternate, silmple or pinnate to bipinnate with linear-lanceolate or filiform lobes, cauline leaves when present usually amplexicaul. Capitula 5-20-flowered,  homogamous, ligulate. Involucre narrowly cylindrical. Phyllaries 2-seriate, outer phyllaries narrowly membranous-margined, inner ones  5 or 8, linear-lanceolate, much longer than outer few phyllaries. Receptacle naked, flat, alveolate. Florets yellow or orange-yellow, with 5 long teeth, longer than involucre. Anthers sagittate at base, with triangular appendages at apex. Style branched, filiform. Cypselas somewhat fusiform, brownish to dark brown, with 5 main ribs alternating with 1 or 2 secondary ribs (then looking 10-15-ribbed), antrorsely papillose scabrid in upper region. beak fusiform, 1/5 to ½ of cypsela body,  slightly flattened dorsally; very small, stout.  Pappus white, 1-seriate, consisting of many scabrid bristles, early caducous.

A small genus with c. 7   species (Mabberley, 2008),  distributed from Central to East Asia including North Pacific Islands, represented by 4 species in Pakistan.