Picris pauciflora Willd., it is an annual herb, up to 10-50 (-70) cm. hairy, erect or ascending. Flowering stems usually branched from the base; indumentum with numerous rigid, unequal, simple as well as anchor-hooked, 2-furcate glochid hairs and numerous, minute, lanate hairs. Basal leaves oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic or oblong elliptic, 30-120 (-150) x 5-15 (-20) mm. entire to sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, attenuate into a petiole. The cauline leaves smaller and decreasing in size above, sessile. semi-amplcxicaule. Peduncles (6-) 8-12 cm, slightly inflating in fruit, constricted at the base of the involucre. Involucre (8-) 10-13 x 7-JO mm. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, hairy; indumenturn similar to the stem and leaf. Outer involucral bracts up to 5 mm. Inner involucral bracts up 10 13 mm. with wide scarious margin, indurated and carinate in fruit. but not enclosing the marginal cypsela. Ligules yellow, up to 10 mm (incl. basal tube 2.5 mm). 5-toothed; teeth less than 0.5 mm; fundus silky hairy. Cypselas homomorphic, 4-5 (-6) mm, fusiform, incurved, brown, strongly transversely muricate, glabrous, gradually attenuate towards base; usually gradually attenuate towards the apex into a small (0.5-0.75 mm) beak; pappus uniform, up to 7.5 mm. of many plumose setae, deciduous.
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