Herbs 2-6 cm tall, perennial, stemless or shortly stemmed. Caudex elongate, 2-3 mm in diam., simple or few branched, covered with dark brown remains of petioles. Rosette leaves petiolate; petiole 3-10 mm; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, 1-3.5 × 0.5-1.5 cm, abaxially white and densely tomentose, adaxially grayish green and sparsely arachnoid, base rounded to cuneate, margin sparsely denticulate or entire, apex acute, acuminate, or obtuse. Capitula (1 or)2-5, in a hemispherically condensed corymbiform synflorescence or rarely solitary, subsessile. Involucre campanulate, 6-10 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 3-5 rows, brownish or greenish yellow, villous, apex acute to acuminate; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate, 4-6 × 2-3 mm; middle phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic, 5-8 × 1.5-2 mm; inner phyllaries linear, 8-10 × 1-1.5 mm. Receptacle bristles 1-2 mm. Corolla purplish red, 1.2-1.5 cm, tube 4-6 mm, limb 5-5.5 mm, lobes ca. 3 mm. Achene 3-4 mm, glabrous. Pappus basally pale brown, apically dirty white; outer bristles scabrid. Fl. and fr. Aug-Sep.
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