Herbs 3-6 cm tall, perennial, rosulate, subacaulescent. Taproot and lateral shoot-bearing roots giving rise to secondary rosette shoots. Caudex short, unbranched or weakly branched, with residues of old leaf bases. Rosette leaves oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2-5 × 0.4-1.5 cm, pinnatipartite, base attenuate into a petiole-like portion; lateral lobes 4 or 5 pairs, opposite to obliquely opposite, narrowly triangular, basally broadly falcate; terminal lobe narrowly elliptic, elliptic-triangular, or orbicular, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded. Capitula 3-9, clustered, directly from axils of rosette leaves or on a stalk, with 9-15 florets; stalk capillaceous, short, branched; peduncle capillaceous, 1-3 cm, arachnoid hairy to tomentose, ± bracteate. Involucre cylindric, ca. 1 cm. Phyllaries dark green in fruit, arachnoid hairy; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate to lanceolate, longest ca. 1/3 of inner ones, apex obtuse to acute; inner phyllaries ca. 8, adaxially glabrous, margin broadly white membranous, apex acute to obtuse. Achene dark brown to blackish, subfusiform, 3.5-4 mm, apex truncate. Pappus white, ca. 6 mm, persistent. Fl. and fr. Jun-Sep.
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