Annual or perennial, often rhizomatous herbs, villous to long stipitate glandular, hairy. Leaves basal and cauline on winged petiole, elliptic–lanceolate, oblanceolate – oblong or spathulate, serrate, dentate, pinnatisect. Capitula solitary or many in laxly corymbose, paniculiform synflorescence, heterogamous, radiate. Involucre globose–hemispherical. Phyllaries 2–4–seriate, subequal, herbaceous, oblong, lanceolate with basally keeled midrib, margins scarious, hyaline or somewhat fimbriate. Receptacle convex or globose, epaleate. Ray florets in 2–4 rows, female, white–purple, many. Disc florets bisexual, functionally male, tubular, 4–5–lobed, lobes spreading, lanceolate. Anther bases ecaudate. Style branches appressed, yellow or greenish. Cypselas compressed, obovoid, 2–ribbed, glandular. Pappus absent usually with a viscid secretion at the top of the cypselas.

A small genus, comprising of 12–16 species, distributed in tropical Africa and Asia. Represented by 2 species in Pakistan