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Capitula erect, few to numerous, densely aggregated in a pulviniform synflorescence up to 10 cm. in diam.; flowering stalks congested, usually shorter than the capitula but occasionally up to c. 3.5 cm. long, partly or completely enveloped in the rootcrown hairs, simple or shortly branched, bracteate, glabrous to pilose, lanate in the axils; bracts 4–12 mm. long, lanceolate.
Leaves radical, appearing after flowering, c. 9(25) cm. long, mostly oblanceolate in outline, acute at the apex, attenuate to cuneate below, remotely denticulate to runcinate-pinnatifid, ± densely pilose to glabrescent, midribs lanate below.
Achenes dark-brown c. 9 mm. long including the beak, fusiform, apically attenuate into a beak c. 3 mm. long, narrowly-ribbed, scabridulous, glabrous; pappus copious several-seriate, of numerous barbellate setae up to 10 mm. long.
Corollas c. 16 mm. long; tubes narrowly-cylindric, rugulose, puberulous above; ligules yellow, sometimes becoming reddish-purple outside, c. 10 mm. long, lorate, erect, glabrous, apical lobes densely papillose outside.
An acaulescent perennial herb rarely more than 7 cm. tall; taproot large, semi-woody, up to c. 3 cm. in diam. at the apex; rootcrown very densely brown sericeous-lanate with hairs c. 2 cm. long.
Phyllaries 3–4-seriate, from c. 4 mm. long outside to c. 15 mm. long inside, lanceolate acute to acuminate, margins hyaline entire or remotely serrulate.
Involucre 11–18 x 4–8 mm., cylindric to narrowly campanulate.
