Herbs 20-40 cm tall, perennial. Stem solitary, very slender, flexuous, erect, branched only apically, glabrous, leafy. Basal and lower stem leaves oblanceolate, 4-13 × 1-3 cm, both faces finely pubescent, base attenuate into a short cuneately winged petiole-like portion, margin coarsely sinuate-dentate, apex acuminate. Upper stem leaves similar to lower ones but smaller and elliptic to lanceolate; uppermost stem leaves linear or subulate, reduced in size. Synflorescence rather densely corymbiform, with few to several capitula. Capitula with ca. 15 florets; peduncle 1-1.5 cm, slender, glabrous. Involucre cylindric, 8-9 mm. Outer phyllaries 6 or 7, broadly ovate, ca. 1 mm, apex acute to obtuse; inner phyllaries 8, both faces glabrous, midvein subapically crested, margin white scarious, apex acute to obtuse. Anther tube and style branches green to blackish upon drying. Achene dark brown, subfusiform, ca. 4 mm, somewhat more attenuate toward apex than base, ribs finely spiculate. Pappus grayish, 4-5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul-Aug.
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