diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Descriptor/MarkdownDescriptor.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Descriptor/MarkdownDescriptor.php
index 6735bb467f..82fb3865ee 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Descriptor/MarkdownDescriptor.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Descriptor/MarkdownDescriptor.php
@@ -123,8 +123,9 @@ class MarkdownDescriptor extends Descriptor
     {
         $describedNamespace = isset($options['namespace']) ? $options['namespace'] : null;
         $description = new ApplicationDescription($application, $describedNamespace);
+        $title = $this->getApplicationTitle($application);
 
-        $this->write($application->getLongVersion()."\n".str_repeat('=', Helper::strlen($application->getLongVersion())));
+        $this->write($title."\n".str_repeat('=', Helper::strlen($title)));
 
         foreach ($description->getNamespaces() as $namespace) {
             if (ApplicationDescription::GLOBAL_NAMESPACE !== $namespace['id']) {
@@ -143,4 +144,17 @@ class MarkdownDescriptor extends Descriptor
             $this->write($this->describeCommand($command));
         }
     }
+
+    private function getApplicationTitle(Application $application)
+    {
+        if ('UNKNOWN' !== $application->getName()) {
+            if ('UNKNOWN' !== $application->getVersion()) {
+                return sprintf('%s %s', $application->getName(), $application->getVersion());
+            }
+
+            return $application->getName();
+        }
+
+        return 'Console Tool';
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Fixtures/application_2.md b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Fixtures/application_2.md
index 0fb9100805..fedc712ab8 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Fixtures/application_2.md
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Console/Tests/Fixtures/application_2.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-My Symfony application <info>v1.0</info>
-========================================
+My Symfony application v1.0
+===========================
 
 * [`alias1`](#descriptorcommand1)
 * [`alias2`](#descriptorcommand1)