Herbs, perennial, ca. 3 cm tall, scapiform; rhizomes slender and long, woody. Stems usually simple, erect, sometimes decumbent, laxly leafy. Leaves densely strigose; basal leaves rosulate, present at anthesis, winged petiolate, obovate or oblong, 1.5-2 × ca. 0.7 cm, thick, base gradually attenuate, margin serrate (teeth mucronulate), apex obtuse or ± acute; cauline leaves gradually smaller, shortly petiolate or subsessile, spatulate or lanceolate, base attenuate, apex acute. Capitula 1 or 2, shortly pedunculate, erect, ca. 8 mm in diam. Involucres hemispheric, 4-7 mm, tinged purple-red; phyllaries 2-seriate; outer phyllaries lanceolate, short, margin fimbriate-ciliate, scabrous, apex acuminate. Ray florets white, 7.5-7.7 mm, tube ca. 1.6 mm; disk florets ca. 3.6 mm, tube ca. 1.2 mm, limb campanulate, lobes lanceolate, ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Achenes (immature) strigose. Pappus (immature) dirty white, often tinged yellow, or reddish, ca. 2 mm.
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