Herbs 15-40 cm tall, perennial, rosulate. Caudex brown lanate, with residues of old leaf bases. Stems solitary or few, slender, erect, branched from base or higher, leafless or only with bracts. Rosette leaves oblanceolate, to 20 × 7 cm, lyrately pinnatilobate, pinnatipartite, or pinnatisect, both faces pubescent with brown multicellular crinkled hairs, base attenuate into a petiole-like portion, margin mucronately sinuate-dentate; lateral lobes 5-8 pairs, opposite or alternate, semiorbicular, elliptic, or triangular, gradually smaller toward leaf base, apex obtuse to rounded; terminal lobe ovate, 5-10 cm, much larger than lateral lobes, shallowly lobed, apex rounded. Synflorescence paniculiform-corymbiform, with numerous capitula. Capitula with ca. 5 florets; peduncle very slender. Involucre cylindric, 6-7 mm. Phyllaries abaxially glabrous; outer phyllaries ovate to lanceolate, longest ca. 1.5 mm, apex ± acute; inner phyllaries 5, adaxially glabrous, apex obtuse. Anther tube and style branches yellow upon drying. Achene dark purplish brown, subfusiform to columnar, 2-3 mm, apex slightly attenuate. Pappus yellowish brown, 3-4 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Jul.
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