Herbs to 15 cm tall, slender. Petiole pale green or purplish, narrow; leaf blade narrowly oblanceolate, ± glabrous, margin undivided and remotely dentate or pinnatisect; lateral lobes in 4 or 5 pairs, approximate, ± recurved, distal margin sigmoid, apex with an elongated tip; interlobes short, margin entire; terminal lobe ± triangular, with a lingulate tip. Scapes brownish green, overtopping leaves, glabrous. Capitulum ca. 3 cm wide. Involucre obconic, 5-7 mm wide. Outer phyllaries 11-13, blackish green, ± not imbricate, ovate to lanceolate, outermost ones 4.2-6.5 × 1.3-2 mm and 1/3-1/2 as long as inner ones, loosely appressed, venation not visible, unbordered, margin whitish ciliate, flat below apex; inner phyllaries 1-1.1 cm. Ligules (?pale) yellow; outer ligules flat and striped pinkish outside; inner ligules with blackish purple teeth. Stigmas black. Anthers polliniferous; pollen grains regular in size. Achene (mature unknown) probably straw-colored brown, ca. 4 mm, apically sparsely spinulose and subabruptly narrowing into a conic 0.6-0.7 mm cone; beak at least 5 mm. Pappus white, ca. 5 mm. Fl. summer. Sexual.
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