Descriptions : Herb, with upright unbranched stem; plant covered with multicellular hairs, on stem, leaf, and outside of involucral bracts; leaves spirally arranged, mostly on lower part of stem, simple, elliptic, coarsely dentate; leaf apex obtuse or subacute; base attenuate; lower leaf surface hairy; upper surface sparsely covered with hairs; inflorescence of several heads near stem apex; heads cup-shaped, on short peduncle; involucral bracts linear, overlapping, not connate, with acute apex; flowers all disk flowers; pappus consisting of bristles; corolla orange, a long tube with 5 lobes; stamens: anthers introrse with apical extension, base not sagittate; ovary inferior; style with 2 stigma lobes.
