Herbs, subscapigerous. Rhizomes ca. 3 mm in diam., clad in persistent petiole bases. Stems solitary, erect, 5-30 cm tall, simple, densely white arachnoid-tomentose, ± glabrescent. Radical leaves several, rosulate, long petiolate; petiole 1.5-7 cm, densely to sparsely tomentose, basally slightly expanded; blade adaxially whitish or pale green, suborbicular or pentagonal, 1-6 × 1-6 cm, abaxially densely white tomentose, adaxially sparsely white arachnoid and shortly pilose, obscurely palmately veined, base cordate, margin shallowly 5-lobed or angled or shallowly lobed with mucronulate teeth, apex rounded-obtuse. Stem leaves 1 or 2, small, shallowly lobed, shortly petiolate. Capitula 1.5-2 cm in diam., 2-10 or more, arranged in at first contracted terminal umbelliform corymbs; peduncles short, with a small basal leaflike bract and few small linear bracteoles. Involucres campanulate, 4-6 × ca. 6 mm, not calyculate; phyllaries 17, broadly lanceolate or lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm wide, herbaceous, inconspicuously 3-veined, apically acuminate or acute, marginally and apically reddish purple and ciliate. Ray florets ca. 13, uniseriate; corolla tube 0.5-1 mm, glabrous; lamina yellow, oblong, 3-4 mm, 4-veined, apically 3-denticulate, obtuse. Disk florets: corolla yellow, ca. 2.5 mm, with ca. 1 mm tube and campanulate limb; lobes lanceolate, 0.5-1 mm, acute. Anthers 1-1.5 mm, basally obtuse to rounded, appendages ovate-lanceolate. Ovary cylindric, ca. 0.8 mm, smooth, glabrous; style branches 0.7-0.8 mm. Pappus white, shorter than corolla. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul. 2n = 48*.
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