Herbs, scapigerous; stolons absent. Rhizomes 3-4 mm in diam. Stems solitary, erect, purple, scapiform, 10-12 cm tall, simple, glabrescent, with several small spatulate, leaflike bracts in upper part. Leaves several, radical, long petiolate; petiole 1-4 cm, pubescent, base expanded, not auriculate; blade abaxially purple, adaxially dark green, orbicular or suborbicular in outline, 0.8-1.7 × 0.8-2 cm, subleathery, nitid, abaxially sparsely pubescent or glabrescent on midvein, adaxially pubescent, palmately veined, veins impressed adaxially, base shallowly cordate, shallowly regularly 5-7-lobed with broadly deltoid or rounded, entire, apiculate lobules, margin ciliate, apex acute. Capitula solitary, terminal; peduncles sparsely pubescent or glabrescent in upper part. Involucres campanulate, ca. 7 × 9 mm, ecalyculate; phyllaries 13, green at base, purple in upper part, oblong-lanceolate, ca. 6 × 1.5 mm, herbaceous, sparsely pubescent, apex fimbriate-ciliate and acuminate or acute. Ray florets 14 or 15; corolla tube ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous; lamina yellow, oblong-elliptic, ca. 9 × 1.5 mm, 4-veined, apically 3-denticulate. Disk florets many; corolla ca. 4 mm, tube ca. 3 mm, limb campanulate; lobes ovate-lanceolate. Anthers ca. 1.5 mm, base obtuse, appendages ovate-oblong. Style branches ca. 0.5 mm, apex truncate. Achenes cylindric, ca. 1 mm, smooth, glabrous. Pappus white, ca. 2.5 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun. 2n = 144*.
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