Simple or branched, annual herbs with hairy and setaceous branches. Leaves sessile, alternate, upper leaves small, entire, lower and basal rosette leaves larger and dentate to pinnately lobed. Capitula homogamous, ligulate, 15-20-flowered, in clusters of 3-5, terminal and on lateral branches, sessile or short pedunculate. Involucre cylindrical 7-13 x 3-5 mm. Phyllaries ± 2-seriate,  glabrous to setaceous and arachnoid hairy. Receptacle flat, naked. Ligules yellow. Anthers with scaly appendages at the base. Styles with 2 long, densely papillose branches. Cypselas dimorphic, outer ones 8, enclosed by inner phyllaries, beakless or with very short  beak, curved and narrowed above, ribbed; central cypselas many with long, slender beaks; body 5-ribbed, with spinules above or all over (looks like Taraxacum), narrowed below. Pappus capillaceous, 1-many seriate, easily detaching in outer ones, persistent in inner cypselas, soft, white.

A monotypic genus, distributed from SW. and C. Asia to Pakistan and Near East.