Perennial herb, stock slender (±4 mm diam.), probably rhizomatous, flowering stem erect to ±750 mm, solitary or paired, simple, glandular-hairy, thinly woolly as well, leafy in lower part, becoming pedunculoid upwards. Radical leaves few, 130-250 x 25-50 mm, roughly half the length petiolar, blade broadly elliptic, apex acute, base suddenly then gradually narrowed into the petiolar part, expanded and clasping below, both surfaces glandular-pilose, lower thinly white-woolly as well, 5-nerved; cauline leaves similar, rapidly becoming smaller, narrower and sessile, and passing into a few distant, lanceolate-acuminate bracts. Heads homogamous, cylindric-campanulate, 4 x 3 mm, many in crowded clusters webbed together with wool, forming a very compact corymbose compound head. Involucral bracts in ±4 series, subequal, closely imbricate, equalling the flowers, not radiating, subpellucid, straw-coloured or pale golden-brown. Receptacle with large fimbrils exceeding the ovaries. Flowers ±9-13. Achenes not seen, ovaries glabrous. Pappus bristles many, scabrid, bases cohering by patent cilia, sometimes light fusion as well.
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