Perennial, almost  stemless, non-spinous, tomentose herb with basally rosetted, short-petioled to sessile, broadly elliptic leaves. Capitula ± Sessile, homogamous, clustered. Phyllaries multiseriate, narrowly lanceolate, apically sharp attenuate. Receptacle flat, bristles subulate. Florets numerous,  bisexual, purple. Corolla tubular, dilated above in 5-lobed limb. Anthers appendiculate, on free, glabrous filaments. Cypselas tetragonous, obovoid-oblong, transversely tuberculate to scrobiculate, glabrous, eglandular. Pappus multiseriate, plumose, basally connate in a ring, bristles deciduous.

A monotypic, Irano-Turanian genus, occurring in  Iran, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan and Afghanistan.