Acaulescent perennial herb to 9 cm tall. Leaves all basal, oblanceolate, acute, retrorsely dentate with mucronate teeth, tapering to the base, 30-52 mm long, 11-13 mm wide, glabrous above, densely white lanate beneath. Inflorescence a monocephalous scape, 50-100 mm tall, lightly lanate, with narrow, scalelike bracts near the apex. Heads discoid, turbinate, 10 mm wide, 12 mm long, several per plant; involucral bracts in several series increasing in size inwards, linear-lanceolate, acute, entire, soft, glabrous or with a few scattered trichomes; receptacle slightly convex, foveolate; florets not exceeding the rim of the involucre, trimorphic; outer series of florets female, the corolla ligulate with a strap-shaped, 4-dentate ligule and no inner tooth, without anthers; second series of florets female, the corolla tubular, irregularly lobed, extending half way up the style, the style branches glabrous, spreading; innermost disc florets perfect, the corolla more or less 5-dentate but with 2 of the teeth set apart from the others by deeper sinuses, the style short, pubescent. Achenes beaked, ribbed, grey-green, glabrous; pappus yellow, of setose bristles.
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