"Flowers and leaves develop simultaneously. Plants usually small. Plant base densely hairy. Middle leaves usually arachnoid. Leaves deeply lobate but lobation uncomplicated and lobes sparsely toothed. Leaf lobes often patent. Midrib without striatulate pattern, leaf blade unspotted. Petioles narrow, unwinged. Scapes unbranched, growing from the centre of leaf rosette, arachnoid, particularly below the capitulum. Involucre with subconical to rounded base, narrow, usually up to 6 mm wide. Flowers yellow. Florets usually few (usually less than 30). Ligules flat. Pollen usually present. Outer phyllaries callose to corniculate or with horns at the apex, inner phyllaries usually corniculate. Outer phyllaries 6 to 10, imbricate or at least slightly imbricate, usually tightly appressed or appressed, lanceolate to ovate, short, usually less than 5–6 mm. Outer phyllaries with narrow or broad paler borders, sparsely to densely arachnoid outside, sometimes inside, and often long ciliate. Achenes usually pale greyish straw brown, with several (not always clearly visible) longitudinal ridges, almost smooth or very sparsely spinulose above, spinules few, remote, achenes 5–6.5 mm long, medium thick, very gradually and indistinctly narrowing to the cone, or cone not developed. Cone, when developed, thick, broadly conical or indistinct, 0.2–1.2 mm long. Beak thick, 0.2–4.0 mm long, persistent. Pappus 4.5–6 mm long, white to yellowish, deciduous. Receptacle glabrous or with a few arachnoid hairs marginally. Plants apomictic, sexuality not yet safely proven."

from Kirschner & Štěpánek (2017: 257-258) and Kirschner & al. (2020: 139) A,B