Herbs to 15 cm tall, perennial, with taproot. Stem solitary, erect, apically branched and with lanceolate bracts, with long stiff blackish hairs. Leaves sessile, narrowly elliptic, isomorphic, 7-8 × ca. 2 cm, abaxially with long reddish brown to brown hairs on veins, base auriculate and semiamplexicaul, margin coarsely dentate to ± lobed, apex acuminate. Synflorescence corymbiform, with ca. 9 capitula. Capitula erect, with ca. 7 florets. Involucre narrowly cylindric, ca. 1.5 × 0.5 cm. Phyllaries dark green, abaxially with long stiff blackish hairs on midvein; outer phyllaries rather few, ovate to lanceolate, 2-5 × ca. 1 mm, apex acute to obtuse; inner phyllaries lanceolate, apex acute to obtuse. Florets yellow. Achene brown, ca. 7 mm, with 8 unequal ribs, apex truncate. Pappus brownish, ca. 7 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep.
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