Herbs 15-35 cm tall. Petiole pinkish green, narrow; leaf blade pale green to mid-green, ± oblanceolate, 10-15 × 2.5-3.5 cm, sparsely arachnoid but later glabrescent, margin subentire to shallowly lobed; lateral lobes 2-5, ± flat triangular, ± recurved, distal margin straight and entire or dentate; interlobes indistinct; terminal lobe not clearly developed, broadly triangular, apex ± acute. Scapes brownish green, ± overtopping leaves, subglabrous. Involucre 9-10 mm wide, base rounded. Outer phyllaries 13-16, dark green with a broad paler border, subimbricate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, outermost ones 7-9 × 3-4 mm and ca. 1/2 as long as inner ones, ± appressed, border 0.5-1 mm, margin sparsely ciliate, flat and not corniculate below apex; inner phyllaries 1.3-1.8 cm, apically flat. Ligules (?pale) yellow; outer ligules flat, outside striped dark; inner ligules with purplish long teeth. Stigmas dark to blackish green. Achene grayish straw-colored brown, 4.2-4.7 × 1-1.1 mm; body ± smooth below, apically subsparsely spinulose with thin acute spinules, ± subabruptly narrowing into a conic 0.7-0.9 mm cone; beak ca. 6 mm. Pappus yellowish white, ca. 5 mm. Fl. summer. Agamosperm.
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