Herbs 20-40 cm tall, usually robust. Petiole ± purplish, 5-13 cm, winged; leaf blade probably light green, narrowly oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 10-30 × 2.5-3.5 cm, sparsely arachnoid with long hairs, undivided but margin regularly dentate or pinnatilobed; lateral lobes 3 or 4 pairs, lobulelike and broadly to narrowly triangular, to 1 cm, remote, patent, margin entire; interlobes long, broad, margin irregularly sparsely dentate; terminal lobe narrowly triangular, large, apex subacute, basal segments narrowly triangular and patent. Scapes brownish green, overtopping leaves, very densely arachnoid (almost tomentose), with thickened pale brownish hair base near capitulum. Capitulum ca. 4.5 cm wide. Involucre 1-1.2 cm wide, base flat-rounded. Outer phyllaries (13-)15-21, not imbricate, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 12-15 × 3-4.5 mm, ± erect, middle part dark olivaceous green and probably slightly pruinose, with gradual transition into pale green 0.3-1 mm wide border, margin remotely denticulate and long ciliate, apex blackish green corniculate; inner phyllaries 1.7-1.8 cm. Ligules light brownish orange, becoming brownish violet when dry; outer ligules outside striped dark gray; floret tube puberulent. Stigmas blackish purple, originally probably light brownish gray. Anthers polliniferous (sometimes sparsely); pollen grains irregular in size. Achene (only not fully ripe ones available) light brown, 4.7-5 × 1.2-1.6 mm; body ± densely spinulose and squamulose above, spinules short, obtuse, and ± tuberculate to smooth below, ± subgradually narrowing into a conic 0.7-1 mm cone; beak probably long. Pappus dirty white. Fl. summer. Agamosperm.
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