Leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, 5–12 cm long, 15–30 mm wide, greyish green, glabrescent; lateral lobes in 4–6 pairs, falcate; distal margins of the upper 2 to 3 lobes with 2 or 3 (–4) falcate lobules, proximal margins entire; terminal lobe narrow, sagittate, entire to trilobulate; petiole light purple, sometimes narrowly winged; midrib usually light purple basally. Scapes 4–10 cm long at anthesis, 15–26 cm long in fruit, white-woolly in bud, glabrous at flowering except under capitulum, rose-purple basally. Capitula 2.5–3.5 cm diam.; outer bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 8–12 mm long, 2.0–2.5 mm wide, erecto-patent to recurved, narrowly white-bordered (c. 0.2 mm wide), ciliolate marginally, thickened to callose at tips; innermost bracts linear, 14–16 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, callus-tipped. Outer florets with ligule flat, exceeding involucre by 3–6 mm; anthers with pollen; stigmas greenish yellow. Achenes broadly fusiform, c. 4 mm long, 0.8–1.3 mm wide, bright red-brown, with spines
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