Rhizome repent or ascending, brown squamate; withered leaves growing in upper part, with slender root. Stems few (3 or 4), caespitose, erect, 23-30 cm, slightly slender, simple, white pallid tomentose, densely leafy in upper parts. Lower leaves squamate, oblong, withered in efflorescence; leaves gradually larger from middle part to apex of stem, slightly expanding, oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm × 3-6 mm, base attenuate, almost not decurrent, margin flat, apex acute with short cusp; uppermost leaves as large as or smaller than middle leaves, densely arranged in synflorescence, radiate; all leaves yellowish white, both surfaces tomentose, 3-veined; midvein slightly convex on both surfaces. Capitula 3-5, densely arranged at top of stems, compound corymbiform, without peduncle. Involucre campanulate, 5-6 × ca. 5 mm; phyllaries 4- or 5-seriate, mauve or margin white; outer phyllaries ovate-elliptic, ca. 5 × 2 mm, apex obtuse or lacerate; middle ones oblong, ca. 5.5 mm, keeled, clawed; innermost ones linear-oblong, ca. 4 mm, with a ca. 3/4 of full length claw, apex lacerate. Receptacle with fimbrillate short hairs. Capitula with numerous marginal female florets, center of predominantly female capitula with 3-6 male florets. Corolla tube ca. 3.2 mm, upper parts mauve. Pappus slightly exceeding corolla. Ovary ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous. Achenes not seen. Fl. Aug.

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

● Alpine meadows; ca. 4000 m. E Xizang.