Annual erect or ascending stout herbs, 20-50 cm high. Leaves,opposite, petiolate, broadly ovate, narrowed at base, acute or obtuse at apex. Heads in axillary and terminal panicles; Involucral bracts 2-seriate; Ray florets few, in conspicuous; Disc florets companulate, Achenes dorsally compressed, black.
*Description source: Not verified.