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Upper stem leaves glabrous or pubescent, sometimes hairy on the margins, sessile, pinnatifid with 2–4 lobes linear to linear–lanceolate in outline, the terminal lobe larger than the others.
Basal leaves very variable, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate in outline, entire or toothed or pinnatipartite, hairy on the margins and veins of the underside.
Stems furrowed and hollow, glabrous in the upper parts, slightly hairy in the lower parts with a few scabrid hairs on the leaf sheaths.
Involucel tube furrowed and hairy, corona membranaceous, glabrous or shortly ciliate on the edge, with 4 rather broad obtuse lobes.
Perennial herb with a thick woody rhizome, producing stems with many leafy shoots up to 1·25 m.
Mature fruit 3–4 mm. x up to 1·5 mm., shortly hairy all over (1 spec. only examined).
Receptacular bracts longer, ovate–lanceolate, shortly hairy with dark tips.
Involucral bracts ovate, short haired, dark coloured.
Capitula globose 20–25 mm. in diameter in flower.
Calyx villous.
