Herbs to 8 cm tall, slender, delicate, tunic usually developed. Petiole pale green, densely arachnoid, unwinged but dilated at very base; leaf blade grayish green, linear to oblanceolate, 3-6 × 0.4-1.2 cm, densely arachnoid to lanate, sometimes glabrescent, pinnatipartite to pinnatisect; lateral lobes 3-5 pairs, narrowly oblong, 1.5-6 × 1-1.5 mm, patent, some subrecurved or pointing upward, margin entire; interlobes usually 2-4 × ca. 1 mm, margin entire but sometimes with a few minute teeth; terminal lobe 3-partite, margin entire, basal segments ± recurved, terminal segment to 16 × 1.5 mm and apex subacute to acute. Scapes ± green, shorter than leaves, arachnoid. Capitulum to 1.5 cm wide. Involucre narrow, 3-4 mm wide, base obconic. Outer phyllaries 8-13, grayish olivaceous green, subimbricate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate but outermost ones to ovate-lanceolate or triangular, outermost ones 4-6 × 2-3 mm and 1/3-1/2 as long as inner ones, ± appressed to loosely appressed, abaxially densely arachnoid, with a whitish membranous 0.2-0.5 mm wide border, apex with a distinct blackish horn to 1 mm; inner phyllaries usually 8 or 9, 8-10 × 1.5-2(-2.5) mm, abaxially arachnoid but later glabrescent, border pink, apex corniculate. Ligules yellow; outer ligules flat to canaliculate, outside striped dark; inner ligules with reddish or yellow apical teeth. Stigmas deep yellow. Anthers polliniferous; pollen grains irregular in size. Achene light grayish straw-colored brown, ± cylindric, 5.5-6.1 × ca. 1 mm, totally smooth or with almost indistinct sparse minute tubercles, cone not discernible; beak whitish, 0.5-1 mm. Pappus dirty yellowish white to white, 5-6 mm, easily breaking off. Fl. summer. Agamosperm.
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