Plants laxly colonial. Stems sometimes reddish at base. Leaves: blades 10–100 mm, margins sometimes ciliate or (distal) stipitate-glandular, apices mucronulate; basal sometimes marcescent, petiole bases widened, clasping, apices obtuse or acute; cauline reduced distally, subclasping, apices acute. Heads (1–)3–10(–30+), each terminating long, ascending branch. Peduncle bracts 2–9, glandular. Phyllaries ± green, margins erose-hyaline, inner more widely so, apices mucronulate. Ray floret laminae 5–8 mm. Cypselae golden brown, ribs stramineous. 2n = 18.
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