Lanate, tuberous, up to 15 (-20) cm tall perennial herbs, with spherical,   2 – 3  cm wide tubers and woolly root collar. Stem branched, sulcate, lanate. Leaves linear, lanceolate, 6 – 12  x 0.3 – 0.5 cm, ventrally lanate, entire, acute and tapering. Upper leaves exceeding  the catipula. Peduncles 2 – 4  cm long, densely lanate, leafless, flexible with a single capitulum. Capitula campanulate, base lanate. Involucre biseriate. Phyllaries membranous-margined, entire, acute, tapering, curved hairy; outer ones linear, 5 – 7  x c. 2 mm; inner ones linear-lanceolate, 10 – 14  x 3 mm. Florets yellow,  claw 10 mm long, limb 2 mm long.  Anthers c.  6 mm long, with acute apex and  base sagittate. Cypselas linear-oblong, 5 – 7  x  1 mm wide, long silky hairy, hairs c.5 mm long, 4-ribbed. Pappus uniseriate, bristles plumose below, scabrous above, 35 in number, 9 – 11  mm long, dirty white.