Herbs, perennial, 15-60 cm tall. Leaves in basal rosette; petiole 1.5-11 cm, wingless, strigose; leaf blade ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-11 × 1.4-4 cm, subleathery, palmate-pinnate veined, abaxially whitish green, veins red, strigose, adaxially green, sparsely strigose, base cordate, margin entire or obscurely callose-denticulate, ciliate, apex shortly acuminate. Capitula subsessile or shortly pedunculate, solitary or 2 or 3, arranged in spikes, 3-flowered; involucre cylindric, 3-4 mm in diam.; phyllaries ca. 6-seriate, papery, abaxially glabrous, outer phyllaries ovate, 2-3 mm, inner narrowly oblong, 9-11 mm. Florets bisexual, chasmogamous, corollas white, tubular, ca. 1 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, unequal, anther appendages apiculate. Achenes fusiform, ca. 4.5 mm, ribbed, densely pilose; pappus dark white, ca. 7 mm. Fl. Jun-Jul.
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