Herbs, scapigerous. Rhizomes 5-10 mm in diam., clad in persistent brown petiole bases. Stems solitary, rarely 2, erect, scapiform, 10-40 cm tall, villous with brown hairs, especially in lower part, usually with 1 ovate or spatulate bractlike leaf in upper part. Leaves several, radical, rosulate; petiole 3.5-10 cm, densely villous with long reddish brown hairs; blade abaxially pale green, adaxially lustrous, green or deep green, broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, 3-7 × 2.5-5 cm, subleathery, abaxially sparsely adpressed pilose on veins or glabrous, adaxially sparsely or densely villous, long ciliate with purplish brown hairs on margins, palmately 5-7-veined, base truncate or rounded, margin lobed with ovate-deltoid or deltoid mucronulate teeth. Capitula 1.5-2 cm in diam., 1-7, rarely 9, arranged in terminal corymbs, at first rather dense, becoming lax; peduncles 1-6 cm, slender, pubescent or subglabrous, with basal bract and several bracteoles; bracts and bracteoles linear or linear-spatulate, 5-10 mm. Involucres campanulate, 5-7 × 5-7 mm, not calyculate; phyllaries ca. 13, lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, 6-7 × 1-1.5 mm, herbaceous, inconspicuously 3-veined, puberulent, margin broadly scarious, apically acuminate or obtuse, ciliate at apex and on upper margin. Ray florets ca. 13, 9-13 mm; corolla tube 2.5-3 mm, glabrous; lamina yellow, oblong, 8-9 × 1.5-2 mm, 4-veined, apically 3-denticulate. Disk florets many; corolla yellow, ca. 4.5 mm with ca. 2 mm tube and campanulate limb; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm, apically acute. Anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm, base obtuse to rounded, appendages lanceolate. Style branches recurved, ca. 0.8 mm. Achenes cylindric, ca. 1.8 mm, smooth, glabrous. Pappus white, 4-4.5 mm. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May. 2n = 48*.
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