Perennial herb, acaulescent or rather more commonly with ascending stems up to 30 cm or more tall; branches irregularly or divaricately [as 'divarcately'] branching, terete below, angular and flattened above, ribbed, puberulous or glabrous, often pallid but sometimes purplish. Leaves 1-few-rosulate or cauline, up to c. 10 x 0.7 cm, very narrowly oblanceolate or more rarely ± linear, obtuse or tapering to an acute apex, margins denticulate or if ± linear ± entire, tapering to the sessile ± clasping base, scaberulous or glabrescent, gland-pitted on both sides. Capitula up to c. 1 cm in diam., ovoid, solitary in the leaf axils from low down to the apex of the stems, or crowded in the leaf axils in acaulescent specimens, or in glomerules at the apex of the stems (in subsp. orientalis). Involucres subtended by linear bract-like leaves equalling or distinctly exceeding the involucral bracts or by a rosette of leaves as long as, or longer than, the cauline leaves which broaden considerably at the base and clasp the involucres; involucral bracts subequal, c. 3-seriate, ovate at the base in the outer series and linear above, the inner lanceolate-oblong and often apiculate at the apex, margins ciliate or tomentose-ciliate towards the apex, c. 5-7 mm long. Receptacle paleate with paleae c. 2.5 mm long and of copious almost free fimbrillae. Ray-florets yellow up to 1 cm long, tubular in the lower half, ligule oblong-elliptic, 3-dentate at the apex. Hermaphrodite disk-florets yellow, 5-6 mm long, tubular in the lower one-third, wider above, lobes divided almost to the base of the limb, linear-acuminate, papillose towards the apex. Cypsela c. 1.5 mm long, obconic, silky-pilose; pappus 2-seriate, c. 1.5 mm long, outer series oblong, membranous, the inner similar but with elongate aristae.
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Perennial herb, 0.2-0.4 m high; stems ascending; branches irregularly or divaricately branching. Leaves 1-few-rosulate or cauline, narrowly oblanceolate or linear, apex obtuse or acute, margins denticulate, if linear, then entire; gland-pitted on both surfaces. Capitula ovoid, crowded in leaf axils at base of plant in acaulescent form or solitary in widely separated leaf axils in cauline form; involucre ovoid or globose; bracts in many rows, outer bracts usually with foliaceous appendages. Receptacle convex to conical. Ray florets yellow; tube 3-toothed, oblong-elliptic. Disc florets bisexual, yellow. Anthers sagittate at base, with lanceolate, apical appendage. Style terete, slightly swollen at base; branches linear, acute. Flowering time Sept.-Apr. Pappus biseriate, outer series oblong, membranous, inner similar but with elongate aristae. Cypselae obconic, silky-pilose.
Semiprostrate or erect, stemmed perennial herb, up to 200 mm tall. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, distantly and minutely denticulate, ciliate along petiole-like base. Heads solitary or in small groups in forking of branches. Flowers yellow.
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