Herbs 10-18 cm tall. Petiole greenish or pink, narrow, sparsely arachnoid; leaf blade mid-green, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, 5-11 × 1-2 cm, sparsely arachnoid, pinnatisect; lateral lobes 3-5 pairs, narrowly triangular, ± patent to subrecurved, proximal margin concave and entire, distal margin sigmoid or straight and often with 1-3 teeth, apex subacute; interlobes narrow, margin entire or denticulate; terminal lobe narrowly triangular, elongated. Scapes ± overtopping leaves, sparsely arachnoid. Capitulum 3-3.5 cm wide. Involucre 1-1.1 cm wide, base rounded. Outer phyllaries 15-19, blackish green, imbricate, narrowly ovate to narrowly lanceolate, often from an ovate basal part abruptly narrowing into a narrow apical part, outermost ones 4.5-7.5(-8.5) × 2.2-3 mm and ca. 2/5 as long as inner ones, appressed, dark middle part with a ± gradual transition into greenish white 0.3-0.7 mm wide border, margin ciliate, ± flat below apex; inner phyllaries 1.3-1.5 cm, apex flat. Ligules yellow; outer ligules ± flat, outside striped gray purplish; inner ligules with purplish apical teeth. Stigmas yellow. Anthers without pollen. Achene dark gray to blackish but straw-colored when unripe, 4.1-4.4 × 1.2-1.3 mm; body apically with ± dense squamules, subabruptly narrowing into a ± cylindric 1.2-1.4 × ca. 0.4 mm cone; beak 6-7 mm. Pappus yellowish white, 5-6 mm. Fl. summer. Agamosperm.
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