Herbs, monocarpic, to 2.5 m tall in flower. Taproot radishlike, or long and narrow, to 18 × 2 cm. Stems terete, branched, yellow or rufous barbellate-pubescent, with a sparse underlay of similar but much shorter hairs. Basal leaves in a dense evergreen rosette; petiole to 28 cm; blade variously shaped, lanceolate, oblong, or oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, 25-49 × 6.5-12 cm, usually near base pinnatisect, near apex pinnatifid; lobes 6-10 pairs, lanceolate, oblong, or deltoid, margin entire or lobed, apex acute or rounded; lower lobes distant, both surfaces densely yellow barbellate-setose, with an underlay of similar but much shorter hairs. Lower cauline leaves similar to basal leaves but shortly petiolate; upper cauline leaves sessile, lanceolate, pilose like basal leaves, base amplexicaul or auriculate, apex obtuse or rounded. Inflorescence paniculate below, racemose above, with lowermost peduncles 3-9-flowered; flowers cup-to saucer-shaped, horizontal to nodding; peduncles 11-19 cm, pubescent like stems. Pedicel 4.7-13.5 cm (to 20 cm in fruit), slender, pubescent like stems, densely so apically. Petals 4, rarely 5, cream to yellow, obovate to suborbicular, 3.2-5.7 × 3-4.8 cm. Filaments similar in color to petals, filiform; anthers yellow to orange. Ovary spherical or nearly so, golden barbellate-tomentose; styles distinct, 6-9 mm (to 13 mm in fruit), near base obviously thickened; stigmas purple or reddish purple, 6-12-lobed. Capsule ellipsoid to ellipsoid-oblong, 1.5-4 × 1.1-1.5 cm, densely golden barbellate-tomentose, sometimes becoming subglabrescent, 6-12-valvate a short distance from top. Seeds reniform, shorter than 1 mm, adaxially alveolate when dried. Fl. Jun-Aug.
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A herb. It grows 2.5 m tall in flower. It has a long narrow taproot 18 cm long by 2 cm wide. The stems are erect and covered with long bristly hairs. The leaves at the base are in a ring. They are narrowly oval with lobes along the edge. The flowers are yellow and in long clusters at the top of the plant. The fruit are oblong and have bristly hairs.
It is a temperate plant. It grows on grassy slopes between 3,000-4,400 m above sea level in Tibet. In Northeastern India it grows between 2,800-3,900 m above sea level.
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