Lagenophora adenosa

Rhizomatous herb; roots and rhizomes fleshy. Leaves (40–)70–150(–200) mm long and 10–30 mm wide, sessile with a winged petiole-like base to 40 mm long, obtuse, both surfaces with eglandular hairs 0.3–1 mm long, and sessile glands, margins sinuate to undulate, crenate or waved, with 11–15 shallow lobes. Scapes, 1–3(–5) per tuft, 10–23 cm long at anthesis, 15–26 cm long at fruiting stage, indumentum including broad based eglandular hairs 0.4-0.6 mm long, patent or retrorse, narrow eglandular hairs 0.1-0.3 mm long, appressed, patent or retrorse, and short glandular hairs to 0.01 mm long, all hair types with similar densities; bracts 1–4, upper ones c. 0.5 x 0.5 mm, lower ones c. 20 x 1 mm or occasional larger; capitulum (11–)12–15(–17) mm wide; involucral bracts linear,  narrow-lanceolate,  apex acute or acuminate, in 5 or 6 rows, outer bracts shorter than the inner bracts, outer bracts c. 3 mm long, inner bracts 3–4 mm long. Ray florets c. 88, in 4–6 rows, ligules 3–3.4 mm long, mauve to blue. Disc florets c. 18, mauve. Cypselas oblanceolate, straight or slightly curved, 2.8–3.3 mm long (excluding beak),1–1.3 mm wide, brown at maturity, glands extending all along ventral and dorsal ridges from beak to carpopodium, and on the basal and distal portions of both faces, otherwise glabrous; cypsela beak to 0.5–1 mm long, densely surrounded by glands, and with a white annular collar at its apex. Flowers mostly from Nov.-Mar. and fruits from Jan.-Apr.