生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Plants suffruticose; stems to 1m tall, erect, striate, crisp pilose, branching apically.
• Leaves opposite, rigid, lower smaller, median large, short-petiolate, ovate to ovate-oblong, 5–10×2–3.3 cm, apex long-acuminate, base rounded to subtruncate, margins obscurely mucronulate-serrate, upper surface green, lower surface pale and glandular punctate and sparsely pilose along nerves, 3-nerved; petiole 4–12 mm long.
• Inflorescence slightly laxly corymbose; involucre broadly tubular, 5–6 mm long, florets 9–15, bracts 12–15, 2- or 3-seriate, apex obtuse, outer ones much shorter, sparsely glandular pilose without.
• Achenes cylindric, black, 2.5 mm long, sparsely pilose. Pappus scanty, 4.5–5 mm long.
• Very similar to <i>E. clematideum</i>, but differing in the lower surface of the leaves glandular dotted and in the 9–15 flowered heads.

物候

fl. Jul-Mar.

分布

• 台灣 : mainly in eastern Taiwan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wulai, Kao 4279. ILAN: Nanao, Peng 13783. TAITUNG: Chihpen, Chung 998. PINGTUNG: Lilungshan, Chung 997. HUALIEN: Su-Hua Highway, Chung 1055; Hungyeh, Koyama & Kao 14246.

參考文獻

• PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 951. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)