Leaves oblong to linear-lanceolate, c. 4–12 cm long, 0.8–2 mm wide, ± entire or dissected, green with midrib pale green to purple; petiole usually pale green, very narrowly winged. Dissected leaves with lateral lobes in 4–7 pairs, short, obtusely to acutely deltoid to hooked-attenuate, sometimes pointing forward; distal margins of upper 2 to 3 lobes denticulate to lobulate; proximal margins entire; terminal lobe relatively short, entire to trilobulate, sometimes with marginal teeth. Scapes 3–5 cm long at anthesis, 6–10 cm long in fruit, white-woolly in bud, glabrous at flowering except under capitulum, green. Capitula 15–20 mm diam.; outer bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3–6 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, appressed to next series, white-bordered (c. 0.3–0.5 mm wide), fimbriate marginally, apiculate with a small, dark, smooth thickening; innermost bracts linear, 11–16 (–19) mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, not thickened at tip. Outer florets with ligule involute, subequal to involucre, pale lemon-yellow. Achenes narrowly fusiform, (4–) 4.5–6 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, with ± flat, straight scale-like spines 0.2 mm long at apex, verrucate towards base, dark red to blackish purple; cone 1.2–2 mm long; beak (3–) 4–6 (–7) mm long, subequal to body of achene. Pappus 5–6 mm long.
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