A low growing plant. Stem thin, 5−15 (−20) cm tall, cobwebby−tomentose, appressed floccose all over. densely leafy at the lower region or upto half length of the stem, white−floccose, glabrescent. Leaves sessile, soft, herbaceous, lanceolate, pinnatilobed, arachnoid−tomentose at the upper and lower side along ribs, middle rib hairy, hairs multicellular, thick and glandular, leaf margin revolute, lobes linear−rectangular, spreading or somewhat shortly recurved, somewhat dilated or decurrent; middle cauline leaves gradually decreasing, linear or subulate − scarcely prominent. Capitula hemispherical, terminal, ca. 2.2 cm in diameter, ebracteate. Involucre 15−20 mm long, rounded or umbonate at the base, arachnoid−floccose or subglabrous, grayish−yellowish green. Phyllaries 5−seriate, outer and middle herbaceous−coriaceous, thin, spreading or recurved; distinctly longitudinally ribbed, appressed basally, gradually spinuolose or mucronate terminally, inner phyllaries thin, membranaceous, straight, with purplish ting, glabrous. Corolla purplish. Cypselas 4−5 mm long, obpyrmidate, tetragonous, transversely suborbiculate, brown. Pappus white, shortly plumose, 14−15 mm long.