Herbs 20-30 cm tall, robust. Petiole ± pale green to purplish, narrow; leaf blade pale green, oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 12-15 × 2-2.5 cm, sparsely arachnoid, undivided or lobed; lateral lobes broadly triangular, remote, recurved-hamate; interlobes long, margin subentire or with 1-3 triangular teeth; terminal lobe elongated, apex subobtuse. Scapes brownish green, overtopping leaves, apically yellowish arachnoid. Capitulum 5-5.5 cm wide. Involucre 1.6-1.8 cm wide, base broadly rounded Outer phyllaries 20-24, ovate-lanceolate, outermost ones 13-16 × 4.5-5.5 mm and 3/5-4/5 as long as inner ones, unequal, ± patent to erect-patent, middle part greenish at base and apically blackish green, distinctly veined, border white, membranous, and ca. 0.2 mm wide but apically pink and ca. 0.5 mm wide, margin sparsely ciliate, apex blackish green, blunt, and corniculate below tip; inner phyllaries to 2 cm. Ligules yellow; outer ligules outside striped grayish; inner ligules with blackish apical teeth; floret tube sparsely puberulent. Stigmas blackish green. Anthers polliniferous; pollen grains slightly irregular in size. Achene brown, 4.5-4.8 × ca. 1.2 mm; body densely spinulose and squamulose above, ± smooth to tuberculate below, ± abruptly narrowing into a subcylindric ca. 1 mm cone; beak 8-9 mm. Pappus yellowish white, ca. 9 mm. Fl. summer. Probably sexual.
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