Perennial, tufted herb with rhizome, 0.10-0.25 m high, often mat forming. Leaves often clasping, pinnatipartite, lobes linear or semi-terete, blunt, mucronulate or ending in long bristle or seta. Capitula solitary; peduncles long; involucral bracts ovate, obtuse, dark-edged and slightly membrane-tipped; middle broadly ovate; inner with round apical appendages. Paleae truncate. Flowers yellow, coppery below. Flowering time July-Apr. Pappus of 5 scales, white, broadly obovate, spirally rolled; inner 5 subulate or linear (white bristles). Cypselae white, oblique, obovate, broadly ribbed, muricate, glabrous with glands in between ridges, distinctly tapering at base; length with pappus scales 2.6-4.6 mm.
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