Herbs 10-15 cm tall, base with remnants of old petioles. Petiole purplish, narrow; leaf blade light green, ± oblanceolate, 7-11 × 1.5-2.5 cm, ± sparsely hairy on both surfaces, deeply pinnatisect; lateral lobes in (5 or)6 or 7 pairs, narrowly triangular, 8-19 × 1.2-1.8 mm, ± patent, distal margin entire or with a single tooth at lobe base and straight or ± sigmoid with apical part bent upward; lower lobes often slightly recurved, proximal margin entire and straight; interlobes usually 2-3 × ca. 5 mm, margin ± entire; terminal lobe 1-1.8 × 0.8-1.7 cm, 3-partite, basal segments narrowly lingulate, to 7 mm, and patent, apical segment narrowly lingulate, to 2 mm wide, and apex subacute. Scapes ± equaling leaves, ± densely arachnoid. Capitulum 3.5-4 cm wide. Involucre 0.9-1.1 cm wide, base rounded. Outer phyllaries usually 19-22, ± not imbricate, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, outermost ones (5-)7-9 × (1.5-)2-3 mm and 2/5-1/2 as long as inner ones, ± loosely appressed, middle part conspicuously colored dark blackish olivaceous and ca. 1 mm wide, with a distinct whitish green 0.5-0.7 mm wide border, margin ± densely ciliate, apex ± flat; inner phyllaries 1.1-1.5 cm, apex flat. Ligules yellow; outer ligules ± flat, outside distally striped grayish pink; inner ligules with dark blackish apical teeth. Stigmas ± black. Anthers without pollen. Achene (only unripe available) pale grayish brown (probably later becoming darker or almost blackish), 4-4.5 mm; body densely spinulose above, subabruptly narrowing into ± subconic 0.6-0.8 mm cone; beak 6-7 mm. Pappus yellowish white, 5-6 mm. Fl. summer. Agamosperm.
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