Herbs 2-5 cm tall, perennial, rosulate, acaulescent. Taproot slender. Rosette leaves narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, 2-5 × 0.4-1.5 cm, green or particularly on rachis tinged purplish red, sinuate-dentate to pinnately lobed with toothlike lobes, ± pilose, base attenuate into a basally widened petiole-like portion. Synflorescence flat conical, 2-7 cm in diam., with some to numerous capitula. Capitula with 5 florets. Involucre narrowly cylindric, 10-12 × ca. 3 mm. Phyllaries 5, lanceolate, abaxially sparsely pilose on midvein, apex rounded to obtuse. Florets yellow, ligule ca. 3 mm. Achene brown, obconical, 3-4 mm, compressed, apex truncate. Pappus 6-8 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 16*.
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