Rhizome slender, somewhat woody; stolons ca. 12 cm, with brown squamiform leaves and terminal rosette leaves. Stems caespitose, erect, 15-45 cm, slender, unbranched, white or pallid arachnoid tomentose, rather sparsely leafy. Basal and lower leaves relatively small, caducous and lost by anthesis; middle leaves erect or somewhat expanding, oblanceolate-oblong or linear-oblong, 2.5-4.5 × 0.5-2 cm, base attenuate, decurrent on stem and becoming a narrow or cuneate wing, margin flat, apex obtuse or acute; upper leaves small, linear or linear-lanceolate, with small or withered cusp; all leaves thin, both surfaces tomentose or abaxially densely pallid arachnoid and mixed with tentacles, inconspicuously 3-veined. Capitula 7-10 or more, corymbiform, terminal on stems; peduncle 1-5 mm. Involucre campanulate, 6-7 × 5-6 mm; phyllaries 5- or 6-seriate, thin, base hyaline, apex white, not hyaline; outer phyllaries light brownish, ovate, ca. 3.5 mm, apex obtuse; middle ones elliptic-lanceolate, ca. 6 mm, apex acute; innermost ones lanceolate-linear, ca. 5.8 mm, with a claw ca. 1/3 or 1/2 of full length. Receptacle with fimbrillate appendage. Center of predominantly female capitula with female florets and a few male florets; predominantly male capitula with male florets only. Corolla ca. 4 mm. Pappus ca. 5 mm, male florets pappus relatively incrassate at tip of apex, dentate. Achene oblong, ca. 0.7 mm, with dense mammilla. Fl. Jul.

No specimens of this species were seen by the second author.

● Alpine hillside grasslands; 2500-2800 m. W Gansu (Qingshui, Xiahe), N Sichuan (Aba, Songpan).