生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Stems erect, sulcate-striate, branches ascending.
• Radical leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 15–25 cm long, apex narrowly acuminate, base contracted, amplexicaul or not, deeply pinnatifid, segments ca. 4, remote, lanceolate or linear to oblong-lanceolate, apex narrowed, base few-dentate or spinose, spines 10–20 mm long, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces; upper leaves gradually smaller, oblong-lanceolate, apex long acuminate, base amplexicaul or not, sparsely spinose-dentate.
• Heads large, short pedunculate, 4–4.5 cm across, subtended by spinose lanceolate leaves; involucre depressed globose, 22×40–15 mm, purplish cobwebby hairy, bracts 5-seriate, outer and middle ones linear-lanceolate, apical spine 5–8 mm long, inner bracts linear, smaller, unawned; corolla purple, 18–21 mm long, limb ca. as long as tube.
• Achenes oblong, 4 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : in the central mountain range, 2,200–3,200 m.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Taian, Wang 1728. NANTOU: Tungpu to Kuankao, Peng 8026. CHIAYI: Tatachia Saddle to Paiyunshanchuang, Peng 8931. TAITUNG: Haituan, Takuanshan, Peng 11788.

參考文獻

• PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 909. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)