Caudex subterranean, thick and lignified, with many fibrous roots from the base; stems annual, several from the apical parts of the caudex, erect, 2-20(-35) cm long, simple or little-branched, herbaceous or suffrutescent, glabrous or with a lax tomentum in the upper leaf-axils, laxly to fairly closely leafy. Leaves suberect-erecto-patent or rarely spreading, filiform-linear, 1-11 cm long, three-lobed or pinnatipartite with up to 4 pairs of lobes or sometimes entire, midribbed or without distinct nerves, herbaceous, glabrous, flat or thickish and subterete, green; leaf segments 0.3-2.5(-4) mm wide; leaf lobes up to 3.5 cm long, erecto-patent-spreading, acute-subacute, seldom obtuse and minutely apiculate with a truncate point. Peduncles terminal, solitary at the branch tips and ramifications, erect, 5-26 cm long, 0.5-2 mm thick, many striate, glabrous. Involucre hemispherical to widely campanulate, 0.8-2 cm in diam., glabrous, green or light brown to straw-coloured. Involucral bracts uniseriate, 11-17, connate to about the middle or slightly more, 4-10 mm long, herbaceous to somewhat coriaceous; the free lobes deltoid to narrowly ovate (to lanceolate), 2-4 mm long, (0.6-)1-3 mm wide, distinctly or faintly 3 to many-veined, acute or acuminate with ciliate or puberulous tips. Receptacle flat or slightly convex, distinctly alveolate; pit-margins raised, fimbrillate-denticulate or with elongate setiform lobes sometimes equaling the ovaries in length. Ray florets 8-17, yellow. Tube 1-3.5 mm long, cylindrical. Lamina lorate or oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblong, 8-16 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, 4-7-veined. Style terete with slightly swollen base; style branches 0.5-1 mm long with truncate to rounded tips. Staminodes sometimes present, filiform. Disc florets c. 25-70. Corolla 3-5.5 mm long. Tube 1-2 mm long, cylindrical or somewhat inflated basally. Limb campanulate, 2-3.5 mm long; lobes (narrowly) ovate, 0.8-1.2 mm long, with subcucullate tips. Anthers 1.8-2.4 mm long incl. the oblong-ovate subaccute to obtuse appendage. Style terete or flattened with swollen base; stylophore short, ± indistinct; style branches 0.4-0.9 mm long, truncate. Pappus bristles few and short, 0.1-1 mm long, flexuous, white, sometimes absent. Achenes narrowly obovate or pyriform to clavate, 3.5-5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, with 8-12 nerves or ribs (most distinct towards the base), yellow to reddish brown, sparsely to moderately densely puberulous with white or brownish, short, papilliform hairs, sometimes glabrous or often puberulous only basally between the ribs.
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Stems several, annual, erect, 20-350 mm long, mostly simple, glabrous, leafy. Leaves ± erect, filiform-linear, 10-110 mm long, 3-lobed or pinnatipartite or sometimes entire, glabrous, lobes up to 35 mm long. Peduncle terminal, solitary, erect, 50-260 mm long. Capitula up to 30 mm in diam.; involucre hemispherical to widely campanulate, 8-20 mm in diam., glabrous; bracts uniseriate, 11-17, connate to ± 1/2, 4-10 mm long, lobes ± deltoid, 3-many-veined, ± acute with ± ciliate apex. Receptacle flat or ± convex, alveolate. Ray florets 8-17, yellow. Disc florets 25-70. Flowering time all year. Pappus absent or of few bristles, up to 1 mm long, white. Cypselae ± obovate, 3.5-5.0 mm long, ribs 8-12, yellow to red-brown, puberulous.
Perennial herb, 20-200(-350) mm high; caudex subterranean, thick, lignified. Leaves alternate, sessile; blade filiform-linear, 10-110 mm long, 3-lobed or pinnatipartite, sometimes entire, glabrous. Heads radiate, solitary, terminal, on nude peduncles 50-260 mm long. Involucral bracts uniseriate, 11-17, connate to middle or more, distinctly or faintly 3-many-veined, ecalyculate. Flowers: ray florets 8-17, female, fertile; disc florets ± 25-70, bisexual; all florets yellow; Nov., Jan. Fruit with cypsela narrowly obovate, papillate-puberulous, often only basally, sometimes glabrous, 8-12-ribbed. Pappus of few, very short (up to 1 mm long) bristles or absent.
Perennial herb, 20-200(-350) mm tall. Leaves filiform-linear, 3-lobed or pinnatipartite, sometimes entire, 10-110 mm long. Peduncles solitary. Involucral bracts connate to the middle or more. Achenes 3.5-5.0 mm long, papillate-puberulous, often only basally, sometimes glabrous. Flowers yellow.
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