Herbs, scapigerous. Rhizomes stout, clad in persistent petiole bases, densely sericeous-lanate, with few fibrous roots. Stems solitary, erect, purplish, scapiform, ca. 20 cm tall, simple, sparsely fulvous pubescent in upper part. Radical leaves rosulate, long petiolate; petiole 3-5 cm, slender, basally expanded, brown sericeous-lanate; blade abaxially pale green, adaxially green or deep green, orbicular or rarely reniform-orbicular, 1.5-2 × 1.5-2 cm, abaxially sparsely fulvous arachnoid, glabrescent to glabrous, adaxially glabrous, palmately 5-7-veined, veins ± raised abaxially, base cordate, margin subentire or sometimes repand, teeth mucronulate, apex rounded. Capitula terminal, solitary, radiate, 1.5-2 cm in diam. Involucres campanulate, 6-7 × 7-8 mm, not calyculate, densely tomentose below capitulum; phyllaries 13-15, oblong-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm wide, glabrous, margin narrowly scarious, apically acuminate, purplish, puberulent. Ray florets 11-13, rarely 15; tube 3-3.5 mm; lamina yellow, oblong, 2.5-3 mm wide, 4-veined, apically denticulate. Disk florets numerous; corolla yellow, 5-6 mm, with ca. 2 mm tube and campanulate limb; lobes ovate-lanceolate, apically acuminate, puberulent. Anthers oblong, 2.5-3 mm, basally obtuse. Style branches recurved, apically truncate, papillose. Achenes cylindric, ca. 3 mm, smooth, glabrous, ribbed. Pappus white, 5-6 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun-Jul. 2n = 60*.
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