Shrub with perennial rootstock. Stems several, to 10 cm long. Leaves mainly basal or extending a short way up the stem, leathery; petiole terete, 2-12 cm long; lamina divided to 6 times into terete, curved lobes; ultimate lobes divergent, 3-20 (-50) mm long. Scape 4-25 cm tall, often scarcely exceeding leaves, openly branched; stems ±curved; heads 6-10 mm diam.; bracts ovate, obtuse to almost acute, 1-1.5 mm long, glabrous, ciliate or hoary. Perianth 3-3.5 mm long; limb wider than tube. Nut 2-2.5 mm diam., densely silky.
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