Small plant, 10 cm tall herb. Leaves greyish-green, sparsely hairy with brown spots, lobed, interlobe c. 5 mm broad, lobes denticulate, runcinate, narrow, terminal lobe sagittate or deltoid. Scapes few. Involucre greenish; outer phyllaries ovate, appressed or tips reflexed, broadly scarious marginate; inner ones linear-lanceolate, corniculate. Capitula large, c. 4 cm across; ligules yellowish. Stigma greenish. Cypselas stramineous, with broad spinules above, c. 3.2 mm long, with 0.8 mm long, gradually formed cone; beak 8 mm long; pappus white, 5 – 6 mm long.