Perennial, 15–50 cm high; roots elongate, fleshy, cylindrical to long-tapered, branching just below ground-level, sometimes suckering. Leaves linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, mostly 5–20 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, entire to distantly acutely lobed. Capitula 30–50 mm diam.; peduncles to 50 cm long, much longer than leaves; involucral bracts ovate to narrow-lanceolate, 2–20 mm long, acute. Florets 10–30; ligules 15–25 mm long, much exceeding involucre. Cypselas mostly 5–7 mm long, straw-coloured, glabrous to minutely pubescent; pappus of 10–20 barbellate bristles, 8–13 mm long, widened to c. 0.3–0.5 mm at base. Flowers Dec.–Mar.
VVP, GipP, CVU, DunT, HSF, HNF, MonT, VAlp. Also NSW, Tas. In Victoria confined to alpine and subalpine herbfields of the eastern ranges, and often locally plentiful.
