Radical lvs ± 15-35 × 4·5-6·5 cm., obovate-oblong, abruptly acute to acuminate, narrowed to sheathing base, coriac., completely clad in dense silvery tomentum; margins rather closely crenulate to subentire, hydathodes evident, sheaths densely clad in long floccose hairs; ribs c. 10-15, inconspicuous. Scapes up to 60 cm. long, grooved, tomentose; lower lvs narrow-oblong, upper linear; racemes with c. 10-20 capitula, each c. 2 cm. diam. Phyll. linear-lanceolate, acuminate, with scattered hairs. Ray-florets short, inconspicuous; disk-florets purple; achenes with silky to substrigose hairs. Pappus-hairs hardly or not at all thickened above.