Herbs, perennial, 20-80 cm tall. Leaves above stem base; petiole 2-13 cm, wingless, villous; leaf blade ovate to narrowly ovate, 3-11 × 2-7 cm, subleathery, palmate-pinnate veined, abaxially pale, villous along veins, adaxially glabrous, base cordate to subcordate, margin callose-denticulate, ciliate, apex acute to obtuse or mucronate extended from midvein. Capitula subsessile or shortly pedunculate, arranged in panicles, 3-or 4-flowered; involucre cylindric, ca. 2 mm in diam.; phyllaries ca. 6-or 7-seriate, papery, abaxially glabrous, outer phyllaries ovate, 1-2.5 mm, inner narrowly elliptic, 7-10 mm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous, white, corollas tubular, ca. 6 mm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, unequal, anther appendages obtuse. Achenes terete or subfusiform, ca. 4 mm, ribbed, villous; pappus brownish, ca. 5 mm. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. Sep-Nov. 2n = 26*.
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