生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial small herbs, rhizomes elongate. Stems terete, 3–5 cm tall, unbranched or branching in inflorescence, densely hirsute, sparsely leafy.
• Radical leaves thick, rigid, rosulate, short petiolate 0.3–1 cm long, obovate or oblong, 12–20 mm long, ca. 7 mm wide, apex acute, base attenuate into winged petiole, margins shallowly mucronulate-serrate, nearly subentire, densely hirsute on both surfaces. Median cauline leaves few, spatulate to oblanceolate, apex acute, base attenuate, short petiolate or subsessile, densely hirsute on both surfaces.
• Heads 1 or 2, ca. 8 mm across, erect, peduncle 2–3 mm long. Involucre hemispheric to bowl-shaped, 3–4 mm tall, 5–7 mm across, bracts in 2 series, herbaceous, purplish, entire, linear-lanceolate, apex acute to attenuate-acute, hispidulous, ciliate, outer bracts shorter, 2.9 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, inner bracts 3.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide. Ray florets ligules white, in one row. Disc florets yellowish, lobes short. Pappus tawny, 2 mm long.
• Achenes densely hirsute.
• As Kitamura (1934) himself suspected when he published this species, it may be an aberrant dwarf or juvenile form of <i>A. morrisonensis</i>.

分布

• 台灣 : known only from the type collection.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Mt. Tawushan, Ohwi s. n. 1933 (TYPE!).

參考文獻

• PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 855. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)