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Plants 200-500 mm high, with radical leaves in a flat rosette. Radical leaves elliptic to elliptic-orbicular and often coriaceous, with dense marginal setae interspersed with smaller setae of varying length. Petioles with conspicuous setae on margin. Involucral bracts 10, obtuse to rounded, in two distinct series (smaller bracts often completely absent, leaving just the five large bracts). Mericarps with long, narrow squamose protuberances restricted to the upper half of the fruit.
Perennial herb, up to 0.2 m high, when in flower up to 0.6 m high; rosulate at base. Leaves appressed to ground, marginal teeth minute; petioles setose, not visible above ground level. Involucral bracts: second series inconspicuously small relative to other 5. Flowering time Dec.-Apr.
Perennial herb. Flowering stems up to 0.2 m high; erect. Leaves radical with a few cauline leaves, simple; blade oblong, margins toothed, teeth with bristles, dark green, leathery. Flowers: involucral bracts ovate to triangular; white; Dec.-Apr. Fruit with scale-like protuberances.
A herb.
