生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Stems erect, 30–60 cm tall, flexuous, glabrate toward base, branched apically, branches crisp puberulent.
• Leaves chartaceous, ca. 4, remotely arranged; lower leaves long petiolate, subtriangular-reniform, to 13×19 cm, apex acute, base cordate, margins mucronulate, upper surface green, lower surface minutely crisp-puberulent, pale, densely cobwebby; upper leaves gradually smaller with shorter petiole; leaf below inflorescence linear.
• Heads numerous in panicles; peduncle 1–3.5 mm long. Involucre cylindric, 8.5–11 mm long, ecalyculate, bracts 2 or 3, narrowly oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1.5–2 mm broad. Corolla 8.5–10.5 mm long, lobes 1.5 mm long.
• Achenes 5×0.8 mm long, glabrous. Pappus glossy white, ca. 6–7 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : peaks of high central mountains, 2,500–3,400 m.
• 世界 : Southern China.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipingshan, Sasaki s. n. 1924; Takuanshan, Sasaki s. n. 1933. CHIAYI: Yushan, Mori s. n. 1906. KAOHSIUNG: Kuanshan, Chung 1024. PINGTUNG: Tawushan, Matuda 71.

參考文獻

• PENG, Ching-I & CHUNG, Kuo-Fang; LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 1024. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)