Herbs, scapigerous. Rhizomes ca. 5 mm in diam., clad in persistent brownish petiole bases, collar densely sericeous-villous. Stems 1-3, erect, scapiform, 10-40 cm tall, slender, simple, sericeous-villous at base, laxly so in lower part, subglabrous or glabrous in upper part. Leaves several, radical, rosulate, long petiolate; petiole 10-20 cm, sparsely villous or subglabrous; blade abaxially pale green or purplish, adaxially green, orbicular, 3-6.5 × 3-8 cm, subleathery, abaxially glabrous or sparsely villous on veins, adaxially glabrous, palmately veined, base deeply or sometimes shallowly cordate, margin irregularly repand-dentate with broadly deltoid, obtuse, apiculate teeth. Capitula 2.5-3 cm in diam., 1-3 in terminal corymbs; peduncles elongate, slender, with basal bract and 2 or 3 bracteoles in upper part; bracteoles linear, 8-15 mm, sparsely villous, apex acute. Involucres broadly campanulate, hemispheric when flattened, 8-10 × 6-10 mm, calyculate with 4 or 5 linear bracteoles; phyllaries 16 or 17, oblong-linear, 2-2.5 mm wide, herbaceous, tomentose at base or glabrous, margin narrowly scarious, apically purplish, ciliate, and acuminate. Ray florets 10-13; corolla tube 5-5.5 mm, glabrous; lamina yellow, ovate-oblong, 16-18 × ca. 2.2 mm, 7-veined, apically 3-denticulate. Disk florets many; corolla yellow, ca. 6.5 mm, with ca. 3.5 mm tube and funnelform campanulate limb; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm, apically acute. Anthers ca. 2.5 mm, base obtuse to rounded, appendages ovate-oblong. Style branches ca. 1 mm. Achenes cylindric, ca. 4.5 mm, smooth, glabrous. Pappus white or sometimes yellowish at base, ca. 6 mm. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. May-Jul. 2n = 60*.
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