Herbs, perennial, 30-90(-130) cm tall. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole broadly winged, (2-)4-9(-11) × 4-30 mm (at upper point); leaf blade ovate or narrowly ovate, (2-)5-10 × (1.5-)3-8 cm, papery, palmate-pinnate veined, concolorous, strigose on both surfaces with long straight trichomes, or more commonly slightly discolorous with abaxial surface strigose-lanate and adaxial surface sparsely strigose, base constricted and decurrent into petiole, margin callose-denticulate and straight, apex obtuse or acute. Capitula subsessile or shortly pedunculate, (1 or)2-4 clustered, arranged in spikes or panicles, 3-flowered; involucre cylindric, ca. 3 mm in diam.; phyllaries ca. 5-seriate, papery, abaxially ± sparsely pilose, outer phyllaries ovate, ca. 1.5 mm, inner elliptic, ca. 8 mm. Florets bisexual, usually chasmogamous (sometimes without pappus), more rarely cleistogamous (at different seasons or in same plant). Chasmogamous floret corollas tubular, 0.8-1.1 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong, unequal, anther appendages rounded. Achenes subfusiform, ca. 5.5 mm, ribbed, densely pilose; pappus absent or present, brownish, 8-10 mm. Cleistogamous floret corollas closed, tubular, minutely 5-lobed, ca. 4 mm, hidden in pappus. Achenes subfusiform, ca. 6 mm, ribbed, densely pilose; pappus brownish, 8-10 mm. Fl. year-round.
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