A small herb, 3 – 5 cm tall. Root collar in the axil of leaves with flexuous hairs. Leaves 3 – 12 mm long hairs, pinnatilobed, lobes linear, patent to runcinate, denticulate; interlobes 3 – 8 x 1 mm, denticulate; petiole small, winged at the base, brownish. Scapes 2-3, hairy above. Capitula 2.5 cm across. Involucre 10 x 8 mm, greenish; outer phyllaries small, 3 – 5 x 2.5 mm, ovate, loosely appressed, with scarious and ciliate margin, slightly callose, purple at the apex. Ligules yellow, peripheral ones with dark stripes outside. Anthers polliniferous. Styles and stigmas drying black. Cypselas 4.3 – 5 mm long, brownish-red, broadly spinulose above, with c. 0.6 – 0.8 mm long, abruptly formed, conical cone; beak 4.5 – 5.5 mm long; pappus c. 5 mm long, dull white.