Lvs and scapes clad in dense appressed to subappressed greyish white tomentum; upper surface sts becoming glab. when aged. Rosette-lvs c. 5-10 × 1·5-2.5 cm., obovate, gradually narrowed to flat petiole c. 3 cm. long. Lower scape-lvs similar, smaller; upper ovate, uppermost bractlike. Scapes c. 6-30 cm. long, c. 2 mm. diam. Glomerules c. 1·5-2 cm. diam., phyll. c. 4 mm. long, linear to oblong, obtuse to subacute. Florets c. 4 mm. long, yellow or white. Achenes c. 2 mm. long, subovoid to oblong, densely silky-hairy; pappus-hairs c. 4 mm. long.
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