Herbs, perennial, 11-25 cm tall. Leaves basally clustered; petiole 2-5 cm, wingless, strigose; leaf blade ovate to oblong, 2-3.5 × 1.5-2 cm, subleathery, palmate-pinnate veined, abaxially moderately strigose, adaxially subglabrous, base abruptly rounded, then cuneately narrowed into petiole, margin denticulate, apex acute-mucronate. Capitula shortly pedunculate, arranged in spikes, 3-flowered; involucre 5-or 6-seriate, narrowly campanulate, ca. 4 mm in diam.; phyllaries dull purple, subleathery, glabrous, outer phyllaries ovate, 1-2 mm, inner linear to elliptic, ca. 10 mm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous, corollas white, tubular, 8.5-11 mm, anther appendages truncate. Achenes oblong to obovoid, ca. 2 mm, apically pilose; pappus 6.5-8 mm. Fl. Oct.
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