Crepis newii Oliv. & Hiern

Perennial herb 0.1–1.2 m high, with most leaves in a rosette; flowering stem(s) usually 1, erect or weak, sometimes rather woody.. Leaves appressed to the ground or erect, dull to bright green, sessile, narrowly obovate or oblanceolate, 4–18(–38) cm long, 1–4(–7.5) cm wide, base attenuate, margins dentate to coarsely recurved-dentate, less often denticulate or pinnately lobed, apex acute or rounded and mucronate, glabrous or sparsely glandular-setose beneath, sometimes the indument restricted to midrib and veins, occasionally densely setose when young; cauline leaves absent or smaller than radical ones; midrib pallid.. Capitula erect, 2–15(–54) in lax corymbs; stalks of individual capitula sparsely pilose or glandular-setose, distally also short-pubescent; involucre 7.5–17 mm long; phyllaries pale to dark green, lanceolate, 2.5–17 mm, obtuse or acute, with scattered to dense dark or pale setae and usually short-pubescent at least proximally, sometimes glandular, usually restricted to the midrib, distally glabrous or setose, the inner phyllaries with pale scarious margins and often keeled and spongy near the base.. Corolla bright yellow, the ligules rarely reddish beneath, tube cylindric, 3.5–6 mm long, (sparsely) pilose, ligule 6–14.5 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide.. Achenes brown to orange-red, cylindrical becoming fusiform, (2–3 mm at anthesis) 6–10 mm long, distally tapered but not beaked, rarely slightly beaked, finely ribbed, the ribs antrorsely muricate; pappus 4.5–9 mm long, barbellate.. Fig. 17/1–3.