Picris mauginiana Pamp., it is an annual, up to 10-50 cm. erect, hirsute. Stems branched from the base, divaricately branched above; indumentum mostly of stiff glochid, simple or anchor-hooked, 2-furcate hairs, in the upper parts mixed with soft, brown, lanate hairs. Basal leaves oblanceolate or spathulate, (20-) 60-100 x 10-20 mm. sinnuate-toothed to pinnatifid, attenuate into ± winged petiole. Mid-cauline leaves, sessile, oblong, (20-) 40-60 (-80) x 10-20 mm. pinnarifid, base semiamplexicaule. Uppermost cauline leaves sessile. elliptic, pinnatifid to sub entire; indumentum similar to that of stem. Pedunclcs 1.5-6 (-7) cm. slender, somewhat thickened in fruit and constricted at the base of the capitulum. Peduncular bracts 2-4, up to 10 mm, narrowly linear, merging with the involucral bracts. Involucre 8-12 x 10-13 mm. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, up to 7 mm, acute. Inner involucral bracts up to 13 mm, margin in the lower part white scarious, weakly heeled and indurated in fruit, enfolding the marginal cypselas ± persistently. Ligules yellowish with coppery reverse, 10-12 mm (including basal tube 3-4.5 mm) x 1.5-2 mm. 5 toothed; teeth 1-1.25 mm; fundus silky hairy. Cypselas heteromorphic, light to dark brown; marginal cypselas 4.5-6.5 mm (including beak; beak ± equalling the body of the cypsela), curved, fusiform, pubescent; inner cypselas 4.5-6 mm (including beak; beak equal to the body of the cypsela, dilated like a saucer at the apex), slightly curved to ± straight, transversely rugose, non-hairy; pappus of the peripheral cypselas, 1.5-2.5 mm. scabrid, distinctly articulated at the apex of the beak; pappus of the inner cypselas (5-) 6-7 mm. of many plumose setae, deciduous.
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