Herbs, scapigerous or subscapigerous. Rhizomes short, slender, clad in persistent black-brown petiole bases. Stems solitary, erect, 3-12 cm, simple, glabrous or subglabrous. Radical leaves several, rosulate, long petiolate; petiole slender, densely yellow lanate, basally slightly expanded, pilose at upper part; blade abaxially purplish, adaxially green, reniform or suborbicular, 0.5-1 × 1-1.5 cm, subleathery, both surfaces glabrous or sometimes white tomentose abaxially and later glabrescent, inconspicuously palmately 5-veined, base cordate or rarely subtruncate, margin reflexed when dry, palmately regularly 5(-7)-lobed; lobes ovate-triangular, apex acute, mucronulate. Stem leaves 1-3, lower leaves similar to radical leaves but smaller, shortly petiolate, 3-5-lobed; uppermost ones sessile, oblanceolate or spatulate, or sometimes bract-shaped, linear, 2-3 mm. Capitula solitary, sometimes 2, 10-15 mm in diam. Involucres broadly campanulate, ca. 5 × 7-8 mm, not calyculate; phyllaries 11-13, oblong-lanceolate, ca. 1 mm wide, herbaceous, obscurely 3-veined, glabrous, margin narrowly scarious, apically acute or rather acute. Ray florets 11-13; corolla tube ca. 2 mm; lamina yellow, oblong, 5-6 × ca. 1.5 mm, 5-veined, apically 3-denticulate. Disk florets many; corolla yellow, 3-3.5 mm, with ca. 1 mm tube and campanulate limb; lobes ovate-lanceolate, apically acute. Anthers oblong, basally obtuse. Style branches recurved. Achenes cylindric, ca. 1 mm, glabrous, papillate. Pappus white, ca. 2 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun-Jul. 2n = 48*.
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