Herbs 3-10 cm tall, perennial, rosulate, delicate. Caudex strong, branching with age, with residues of old leaf bases. Stem solitary, capillaceous, simple or 1-or 2-branched from near base or higher up, sparsely hairy, leafless. Basal leaves spatulate, elliptic, or oblanceolate, 1-7 × 0.3-1 cm, both faces glabrous or sparsely white tomentose but abaxially glabrescent, undivided, weakly pinnatifid with 1 or 2 pairs of obtusely triangular to lanceolate lateral lobes, or pinnatipartite to pinnatisect with 2-6 opposite or alternate pairs of triangular to ovate, rounded to acute lateral lobes, base attenuate into a petiole-like portion, margin entire to sinuate-dentate, apex obtuse to acute. Capitulum solitary or synflorescence laxly corymbiform, with 2-5 capitula. Capitula with 9-15 florets. Involucre narrowly campanulate, 6-7 mm. Phyllaries abaxially glabrous; outer phyllaries narrowly ovate, longest 1-1.5 mm, apex acute to obtuse; inner phyllaries 8, adaxially sparsely appressed hairy, midvein subapically mostly somewhat crested or corniculate, apex ± acute. Anther tube and style branches yellow upon drying. Achene dark brown, fusiform, 2.5-3 mm, ribs finally spiculate, apex attenuate. Pappus white, 4-5 mm. Fl. and fr. May-Jun.
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