Annual, up to 20 cm tall, with several ascending shoots from base. Leaves basal, petiolate, obovate, 1.5 – 2.5 cm long, pinnatisect or incompletely bipinnatisect into oblong-obovate or oblong-linear, 2 – 5 mm long ultimate segments. Peduncles 6 – 15 cm long, slender, hardly thickened upwards in fruit. Capitula radiate, 8 – 15 mm across. Phyllaries ovate-oblong to oblong-linear, 2 – 3.5 mm long, hairy outside with narrow hyaline margin. Receptacle conical, c. 3.5 mm long, chaffy all over, paleae oblong-spathulate, c. 3.5 x 1.5 mm, carinate. Ray-florets female, fertile, ligules white, elliptic, 5 – 6 x 3 – 5 mm, shallowly 3-fid. Disc-florets purplish, 2 – 2.5 mm long, with corolla tube ± inflated at the base on maturity. Cypselas ± tetragonal, c. 2.5 x 0.8 – 1 mm, lightly striate, outer ray-cypselas bald, inner disc-cypselas unilaterally narrowly coronate.

Fl. Per.: April-May.

Holotype: Afghanistan, Ad margine deserti Registan, 20 Km S of Kandhar, 1000 m, Rechinger, f. 35302 (W).

Distribution: Endemic to Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Pakistan it seems to be localized in Quetta and Pishin districts.