Perennial herb ±450 mm tall, stock crowned with old fibrous leaf bases, flowering stem solitary, simple, thinly woolly, leafy near base, distantly bracteate upwards. Radical leaves up to 100 x 10 mm, a third to half the length petiolar, blade elliptic, tapering above and below, strongly triplinerved, petiole thin, wiry, base expanded, clasping, both leaf surfaces harshly pubescent; cauline leaves linear-lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base broad, clasping, margins strongly revolute, harshly pubescent, Heads homogamous, subglobose, ±5 x 5 mm, many in a spreading flat-topped corymbose panicle. Involucral bracts in ±5 series, graded, loosely imbricate, somewhat convex, tips rounded, crisped, erose, opaque white or whole head suffused pink, equalling flowers, not radiating. Receptacle with fimbrils exceeding ovaries. Flowers ±22-29, yellow or pink. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases lightly fused, also cohering by patent cilia.
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