Plants perennial, 8-30 cm tall. Leaves basally clustered; petiole 1.5-6 cm, wingless, strigose; leaf blade deeply palmately lobed, with apical lobe elongate (1-)2.5-3.5 × (1-)2-3 cm, papery, blackish green, pale opaque abaxially, slightly glossy adaxially, sparsely strigose on both surfaces; cauline leaves few, much reduced, alternate, shortly petiolate to sessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Capitula subsessile, arranged in spikes, 3-flowered; involucre narrowly obdeltate, ca. 3 mm in diam.; phyllaries 5-or 6-seriate, papery, glabrous, outer phyllaries ovate, ca. 2 mm, inner linear, ca. 10 mm. Florets bisexual, cleistogamous, corolla closed, tubular, minutely 5-lobed, 5-6 mm, hidden in pappus. Achenes narrowly oblong, ca. 5 mm, shortly pilose. Pappus ca. 9 mm. Fl. Feb-Mar, Aug-Oct.
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