Perennial herbs, simple or branched. Leaves cauline or in basal rosettes, trinerved or palmately nerved. Capitula few flowered, spike like or paniculate, solitary or 1-2 together, homogamous, discoid. Involucre narrow tubular or infundibuliform. Phyllaries multiseriate, imbricate. Florets actinomorphic, deeply 5-lobed. Anthers caudate, sagittate. Style branches short, dorsally papillate or short hairy. Cypselas subcompressed, distinctly or indistinctly ribbed. Pappus bristles plumose or sometimes absent.