Herbs, perennial, ca. 120 cm tall, densely glandular pubescent. Middle stem leaves ± sessile; leaf blade elliptic, 8-11 × 4-5 cm, abaxially gray tomentose, glandular pubescent on veins, adaxially densely glandular pubescent, (2 or)3-pinnatipartite or -sect; segments 5 pairs, ovate or ovate-elliptic, 15-25 × 5-15 mm; lobules 1-3 pairs, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-7 × 2-4 mm, margins occasionally serrate, rachis narrowly winged. Uppermost leaves and leaflike bracts pinnatisect or 3-partite. Synflorescence a broad, much-branched panicle. Involucre ellipsoid or oblong, 2-2.5 mm in diam.; phyllaries sparsely glandular pubescent. Marginal female florets 5-10. Disk florets 8-20, bisexual. Achenes obovoid. Fl. and fr. Jul-Oct.

● Dry shrublands, slopes, forest margins; 3100-3800 m. W Sichuan, E Xizang.