Plants glabrous or with transient hairs mostly 0.1–0.5 mm long. Leaves to c. 30 cm long, l:w ratio c. 3–6, 1-or sub-2-pinnatisect, abruptly dilated basally to form sheath, glabrous apart from inconspicuous mostly early-caducous hairs; primary segments restricted to distal 1/2–1/3 (–1/4), elliptic to sub-orbicular or obovate in outline; secondary segments if present usually only arising from middle to distal 1/3. Capitula c. 3–5 mm diam.; peduncle to 10 cm long at anthesis, c. 0.5 mm diam., with transient hairs sometimes present distally; involucral bracts c. 6–8, broadly elliptic or orbicular, 2.0–2.5 mm long, rounded apically, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Marginal floret corolla wider than long, persistent in fruit. Disc florets several to numerous; corolla c. 1 mm long. Achenes (excluding corolla) 2–3 mm long, 1.0–1.5 mm wide; faces obovate, pale throughout.
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