The leaf blades are ovate to elliptic or panduriform (fiddle-shaped) usually with basal auricles (ear-shaped lobe).

They have crenated (rounded teeth) or serrated margins and the apices (leaf-tips) are acute to scarcely acuminate (tapering gradually to a point) and rarely obtuse.

The lower surface of the leaf, is sparsely pilosulous to tomentellous (dense covering of short, matted hairs), with many glandular dots.

The receptacle is scarcely convex, epaleate (lacking plates), epilose (without hairs), with proturberant (bulging) scars.

The lobes are strictly narrowly lanceolate (shaped like a lance), with sides straight from base to apex and not recurving.

The achenes (one-seeded indehiscent fruit) are 2–41 mm long, with 4 or 5 poorly differentiated angles, with or without glands or setulae, with scattered idioblasts (cells) on the surface set sometimes in vertical series.

The pappus (tuft of hairs) is white, with inner series capillary (slender), often deciduous, 4.5–7.0 mm long and gradually narrowed to tips.

1934), an English botanist at Kew Gardens with a focus on Chinese flora and also specialist in Asteraceae and Cucurbitaceae.

[1] According to Kew; The African Plant Database accepts 4 species; Jeffreycia amaniensis (Muschl.)