Perennial succulent herb, tuberous-rooted; stems semi-prostrate, succulent, 8–20 cm long, cylindrical, thick, tuberculate, longitudinally marked with darker green stripes, glabrous.. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 4–11 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, base attenuate and petioloid, margins entire, apex rounded with a short acumen, thin, glabrous.. Capitula discoid, solitary, terminal on up to 20 cm long pink-tinged glabrous scapes; involucre 15–23 mm long, 12–14 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus absent or obscure, linear, 3 mm long; phyllaries 9–13, 15–23 mm long.. Ray florets absent; disc florets orange-red, corolla 19–28 mm long, tube glabrous, slightly expanded in upper two-thirds, lobes 3.5–4 mm long.. Achenes 7 mm long, glabrous; pappus 16–25 mm long.
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