Herbs, shortly stoloniferous, with leafy stems. Rhizome elongated, ca. 4 mm in diam. Stems solitary, erect, ca. 60 cm tall, ascending and 5-6 mm in diam. at base, villous, with brownish hairs. Radical and lower stem leaves withered by anthesis; median stem leaves 3 or 4; petiole 7-9 cm, basally somewhat expanded, villous, with fulvous multicellular hairs; blade broadly ovate or reniform, 4-5 × 5.5-7.5 cm, papery, abaxially sparsely pilose mainly on veins, adaxially sparsely pilose, palmately 5-veined, base deeply cordate, palmately 5-7-lobed, apex obtuse, mucronulate; lobes broadly triangular, teeth callose-mucronulate, laterally callose-unidenticulate. Upper stem leaves shorter petiolate, smaller. Uppermost leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate. Capitula 5-9 in terminal corymbs; peduncles 0.5-1 cm, puberulent, basally bracteate. Involucres obconic-campanulate, hemispheric when flattened, 5-6 × 5-6 mm, not calyculate; phyllaries 13-15, green, oblong-elliptic, 5-6 × 2-2.5 mm, herbaceous, abaxially purplish red puberulent, white fimbriate on upper margins and apex, margin scarious, apically acute. Ray florets 13; corolla tube ca. 2 mm, glabrous; lamina yellow, oblong, 9-10 × 2.5-3 mm, 4-veined, apically 3-denticulate, obtuse. Disk florets many; corolla yellow, ca. 3 mm, with ca. 1.8 mm tube and campanulate limb; lobes lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm, apically acute. Anthers oblong, basally obtuse, ca. 1.5 mm, appendages lanceolate. Ovary cylindric, ca. 1 mm, smooth, glabrous; style branches recurved. Pappus absent. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun-Jul. 2n = 48*.
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