Caudiciform, dwarf shrublet, with 1-few-branched caudex with a minutely woolly crown, extending above ground up to 50 mm and then sheathed with enlarged leaf-bases. Leaves tufted, broadly cuneate-spathulate, narrowed below to a petiole-like stalk, entire, 20-40(60)x 15-20 mm. Flowerheads 1-few on wiry, naked or minutely scaly peduncles up to 100 mm long, radiate, yellow; involucre campanulate, ± 5 mm diam., bracts 5-8, dark tipped, ± 5 x 1-1.5 mm. Cypselas 2-3 mm long, pubescent; pappus ± 2 mm long.
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