Herbs, perennial, 30-60 cm tall. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole 4-9 cm, winged, sparsely pilose; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-9 × 2.5-4.5 cm, subleathery, palmate-pinnate veined, abaxially densely pilose, adaxially sparsely pilose, base constricted and decurrent into broadly winged petiole, margin callose-denticulate, apex acute to obtuse, rarely mucronate. Capitula sessile, (2 or)3-5(or 6) clustered, arranged in spikes, 3-flowered; involucre cylindric, 4-5 mm in diam.; phyllaries ca. 5-seriate, papery, abaxially white villous, outer phyllaries ovate, 3.5-5 mm, inner oblong, ca. 1.5 cm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous, corollas purplish red, tubular, ca. 1.3 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, unequal, anther appendages obtuse. Achenes terete, 4-5 mm, densely villous; pappus brownish or dark brownish, 8-9 mm. Fl. Aug-Sep.
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