蓬萊籟蕭

Stems simple, erect, 10 cm long, densely floccose, densely leafy, corymbosely branched apically, branches ascending. Leaves densely gray woolly on both surfaces; radical leaves small, obovate; median cauline leaves spatulate, 12-24×3-3.5 mm, apex obtuse, base narrowed, slightly sheathing; upper leaves smaller, linear, 5-6 mm long. Heads ca. 6, in corymbs, pedunculate. Involucre campanulate-globose, densely floccose, 6 mm across, bracts imbricate, 6-series, outer bracts brownish, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subacute to obtuse, inner ones white, obtuse. Ray florets pistillate, many; corolla filiform, 3.5 mm long. Central florets bisexual, few; corolla tubular, 3-5 mm long, 5-lobed. Pappus-bristles 3.7 mm long.

NANTOU: Tashuikushan, Suzuki 13504 (Holotype!).

Endemic; alpine, known only from the type collection.

Anaphalis horaimontana resembles A. nepalensis in having few heads and obovate-spatulate leaves, but can be distinguished by the much smaller heads. It is also similar to A. margaritacea subsp. morrisonicola, but has fewer heads.