Herbs, perennial, 10-80 cm tall. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole 2-5 cm, winged in upper half or wingless; leaf blade obovate to oblong or ovate, 2.5-8.5 × 1.5-3 cm, thinly papery, palmate-pinnate veined, abaxially sparsely villous, adaxially subglabrous, base attenuate, rounded, or cuneate, margin slightly repand, callose-denticulate, apex acute to subobtuse. Capitula subsessile or shortly pedunculate, commonly 2 or 3 clustered, arranged in spikes, (1-)3-flowered; involucre cylindric, ca. 2 mm in diam.; phyllaries ca. 5-seriate, papery, abaxially apically pilose, outer phyllaries ovate, 1.5-2 mm, inner linear, 0.7-1.6 cm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous and cleistogamous (at different seasons). Chasmogamous floret corollas tubular, ca. 7.5 mm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong, anther appendages rounded. Achenes subfusiform, ca. 1.5 mm, ribbed, glabrous, sometimes apically pilose; pappus absent. Fl. Dec-Apr. Cleistogamous floret corollas closed, tubular, minutely 5-lobed, ca. 3.2 mm, hidden in pappus. Achenes terete, ca. 6 mm, ribbed, glabrous; pappus dark white to dark yellow, ca. 8 mm. Fl. Jun-Mar.
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