Herbs, perennial, 15-45 cm tall. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole 2-7 cm, wingless; leaf blade elliptic or subovate, 3-7.5 × 1.5-4 cm, subleathery, palmate-pinnate veined, both surfaces strigose, base rounded, margin callose-denticulate, apex rounded or obtuse. Synflorescence axis solitary, obscurely bracteate; paraclades in spike. Capitula subsessile or shortly pedunculate, (1 or)2 or 3, arranged in spikes; involucre cylindric, ca. 3 mm in diam.; phyllaries ca. 5-seriate, subleathery, abaxially apically sparsely pilose, outer phyllaries ovate, 2-3 mm, inner oblong or lanceolate, 5-10 mm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous and cleistogamous. Chasmogamous floret corollas tubular, ca. 9 mm, deeply 5-lobed, anther appendages rounded. Immature achenes oblong, ca. 1.8 mm; pappus brownish, ca. 6 mm. Fl. Sep-Oct. Cleistogamous floret corollas closed, tubular, minutely 5-lobed, ca. 3.5 mm, hidden in pappus. Achenes oblong, 3-3.5 mm, commonly densely pilose; pappus ca. 5 mm. Fl. May, Jul-Nov.
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