生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Stems 3–10 cm tall, much branched from base, erect, densely leafy, sometimes stoloniferous.
• Radical leaves rosulate, spatulate, 6–10×3–5 mm, apex obtuse, base sessile, margins entire, woolly on both surfaces; cauline and upper leaves longer, spatulate, 10–15×2.5 mm, apex obtuse, mucronulate, base contracted, decurrent, woolly on both surfaces.
• Heads solitary or 2- or 3 together, heterogamous; involucre globose-campanulate, 10×14–17 mm, bracts 7-series, outer bracts ovate, shorter, apex acute, medium ones longer, oblong. Outer florets numerous, pistillate, corolla filiform, 4–5 mm long, 4-lobed; pappus 4.5 mm long. Corolla of central florets tubular, 4.5 mm long, 5-lobed; style bifid; pappus white, 4.5 mm long, caducous.
• Achenes cylindric, terete, 1 mm long, glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : on summit of high mountains.
• 世界 : Himalayas to western China.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Peng 2467. HSINCHU: Tapachienshan, Chang 2035. TAICHUNG: Hsuehshan, Huang 7212. CHIAYI: Yushan, Kao 5616. TAITUNG: Hsiangyangshan, Chiu et al. 2908.

引用文獻

• PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 830. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)