Herbs 8-11 cm tall. Petiole green or purplish brown, narrow, sparsely arachnoid; leaf blade mid-green, linear-oblanceolate, 3.5-8 × 0.7-1.3 cm, sparsely arachnoid, deeply pinnatisect, midrib green to pinkish and ± glabrous; lateral lobes 4 or 5 pairs, narrowly triangular to linear-triangular, ca. 5 × 2 mm, patent to subrecurved, distal margin convex or straight and entire or sparsely dentate; interlobes narrow, margin usually denticulate; terminal lobe narrowly triangular to 3-partite, margin entire. Scapes brownish or purplish green, overtopping leaves, sparsely arachnoid. Capitulum to 2.5 cm wide. Involucre 7-8 mm wide, base rounded. Outer phyllaries 10-13, imbricate, ovate to broadly ovate, outermost ones (3-)5-6 × 2.2-4 mm and 1/3-1/2 as long as inner ones, appressed, margin ciliate, apex ± flat; inner phyllaries 1-1.4 cm, apex blackish callose or flat. Ligules yellow; outer ligules flat, striped purplish gray outside; inner ligules with yellow or gray apical teeth. Stigmas light grayish green. Anthers without pollen. Achene pure brown or castaneous brown, 3.2-3.8 × 0.7-0.8 mm; body subdensely spinulose in upper ca. 1/4, subabruptly narrowing into a ± cylindric 0.6-0.8 mm cone; beak ca. 6 mm. Pappus white, 4-5 mm. Fl. spring. Agamosperm.
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