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Leaves poorly known, appearing after flowering, radical, dark-brown lanate in the axils, up to c. 10 cm. long, linear-oblong and sessile, or elliptic to narrowly ovate and broadly cuneate to attenuate at the base, margins ciliate-denticulate with teeth up to c. 1.5 mm. long; petiole-like midribs up to 4 cm. long, persisting as polished golden-brown scales.
Flowering stalks 1-several ± diffusely branched, or much contracted and subpulviniform, glabrous or ± sparsely glandular-setose, bracteate; bracts foliaceous, sessile, up to c. 4 x 0.6 cm., very narrowly triangular, glabrous; branches mostly simple, up to c. 30 cm. long, divaricate-ascending, or much reduced, glabrous.
Achenes dark-brown to black, 8–9 mm. including a 2.5–3.5 mm. long paler beak, 1.5–1.75 mm. wide, narrowly ellipsoid, swollen-ribbed on the margins with 1 or sometimes 2–3 smaller ribs between, minutely antrorsely hispidulous; pappus several-seriate, copious, of fine white barbellate setae, c. 5 mm. long.
Florets c. 5 per capitulum; corollas yellow, 12–16 mm. long, tube narrowly cylindric, ± densely pilose near the throat; ligules 10–14 x 3–4.5 mm., oblanceolate, ± pilose below, lobes papillose above.
Phyllaries glabrous, guttulate, green sometimes purple-tinged, ciliolate above, the outer from c. 3 mm. long and narrowly ovate, the inner to c. 16 mm. long and lanceolate.
Involucre 7–10 x 2.5 mm. at time of flowering, increasing to c. 17 x 3.5 mm. in fruiting capitula, cylindric to narrowly conical, later narrowly campanulate.
Capitula precocious, numerous, sessile or stalked, solitary or in clusters of 2–4; stalks up to c. 5 cm. long, glabrous.
An erect subscapose perennial herb 7–55 cm. tall, from a narrowly turbinate rootstock.
