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Phyllaries 4–6-seriate, imbricate, glabrous except for the ± lanate-ciliate apices of the inner phyllaries, margins relatively narrowly hyaline; the outer phyllaries up to c. 3 mm. long, ovate to lanceolate, not ciliate on the margins; the middle phyllaries up to half the involucre in length; the innermost 7–9 phyllaries subequal and in 2–3 series.
Achenes up to c. 5 mm. long, subcylindric, many-ribbed with ribs minutely barbellate, narrow at first later swelling, narrowly-spongy; pappus copious, several seriate of barbellate setae 8–10 mm. long.
Scapes much abbreviated, branched, glabrous, glaucescent, bracteate; bracts ± attenuate at the apex and lanate in the axils.
Immature leaves oblanceolate, recurved callose-tipped denticulate, edges and midribs red; mature leaves not known.
Corollas white pinkish or yellow, tubes pubescent outside near the throat, ligules erect.
Involucres 12–16 x 2–4 mm. in flowering capitula, deep-purple, drying olive-green.
Plants pulviniform, up to c. 6 cm. high, flowering before the leaves appear.
Similar to L. nana (Bak.) Chiov.
Florets 8–10 per capitulum.
