生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs, 80–150 cm tall, puberulous or glabrescent.
• Petiole of lowermost and middle cauline leaves 0.2–0.5 cm long, blade thick chartaceous, ovate, ovate-elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, 9–12(–15)×2.5–4(–5.5) cm, glabrescent, occasionally trifid at apex, serrate; uppermost leaves and leafy bracts sessile, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate.
• Heads oblong or ovoid, 2–2.5 mm in diam., inflorescences narrow to broad panicles, involucral bracts scarious throughout, glabrous. Outer florets 4–6. Central florets 6–8.
• Achenes obovoid or obovoid-oblong
• Used as an antiphlogistic and for promoting urine and for curing hepatitis and cholecystitis.

分布

• 台灣 : on hills from 800 to 1,750 m.
• 世界 : Southern and central China.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Wufeng, Peng 8391; Shihlu, Wang 77. MIAOLI: Tapachienshan, Peng 8451. HUALIEN: Yenhai Forest Road, Peng 13330; Chingshuishan, Liao 444.

參考文獻

• PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 834. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)