生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Robust herbs. Stems erect, 4–8 mm in diam., 50–100 cm tall, unbranched or rarely branched below, corymbosely branched above, densely woolly.
• Basal leaves withering at anthesis; middle and lower leaves oblanceolate or subelliptic, 4–9×1–2 cm, apex obtuse, base decurrent, coriaceous, both surfaces densely tomentose, midrib elevated.
• Heads 5–7 mm across, in corymbs on upper stem. Involucre yellow or whitish, scarious, globose, 5–6 mm wide, in 3 or 4 series; outer bracts obovate or oblanceolate, ca. 4 mm long, rounded; inner bracts elliptic or oblong, ca. 4 mm long. Outer florets many, corolla ca. 3 mm; central florets 5–7, ca. 3 mm long.
• Achenes oblong, ca. 0.5 mm long. Pappus white, ca. 3 mm long.
• Northern India, Myanmar, Indochina, the Philippines and southern China.

分布

• 世界 : base of mountain slopes, roadsides and exposed rocky environments, 1,000–3,000 m.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Sankuang, Liao 112; Szumakuszu, Liao 809. NANTOU: Patungkuan to Tungpu, Chen 977; Chingching Farm, Peng 6117; Tungpushanchuang to Tatachiaanpu, Leu 1171. KAOHSIUNG: Tengchih, Nemoto & Kurosawa 30311. PINGTUNG: Ali to Hsiaokueihu, Liao 668.

參考文獻

• PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 973. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)