Perennial herb, up to 200 mm high, with milky latex. Leaves in basal rosette, petiolate; blade linear with mostly entire margins or pinnatifid, rarely all leaves entire, lobes linear or elliptic, margins revolute, upper surface harshly pubescent, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose. Heads radiate, solitary, on nude scapes up to 150 mm long. Involucre campanulate, glabrous or lightly tomentose; involucral bracts 2-or 3-seriate, connate basally, free part shorter than fused part, outer bracts linear, 3-7 mm long, acute, margins ciliate, inner bracts narrowly triangular, acuminate, 4-6(-8) mm long, apices not spinose. Flowers: upper surface of ray florets yellow or orange, lower surface with brown, grey or purple band, sometimes with black spot at base of ray floret on upper surface; disc florets yellow or orange; Sep.-Feb., May. Fruit with cypsela turbinate, sericeous. Pappus of many delicate scales.
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