Annual herb, erect, 70-90 cm tall. Stems pale, striated, densely white-villous particularly in younger parts, somewhat woody at base, 0.4-0.7 cm in diam., branched above. Lower leaves larger, chartaceous, obovate-oblong to spatulate, 16-18×4-7 cm, puberulous on upper surface, appressed white woolly on lower surface, apex acute, base attenuate, margins regularly and remotely mucronulate, veins 10-12 pairs. Heads 8-10 mm long, 4-5 mm across, pedunculate, in lax panicles. Involucre globose-campanulate, bracts in 3 or 4 series; outer ones shorter, linear-lanceolate, 2-3×0.5-0.6 mm, outer surface with numerous sessile glands and multicellular hairs; inner ones linear, 6-7×0.5 mm, margins ciliate. Receptacle slightly convex, 3-4 mm across, alveolate, glabrous. Central florets yellowish, tubular, 6-7 mm long, with 5 broadly triangular lobes, lobes with sessile glands and sparse multicellular hairs. Outer florets filiform, 5-6 mm long, limbs 2 or 3 lobed. Achenes oblong, 1 mm long, 0.4 mm across, ribbed, brownish, glandular hairy. Pappus brownish, 4-5 mm long.
TAIPEI: Sanhsia, Peng 8616; Pinglin, Kao 1407. NANTOU: Kuantaohsi, Peng 2202. TAICHUNG: Tungmaoshan, Leu s. n. 1985. CHIAYI: Tapu, Yen 7396.
Southeastern China. Taiwan, semishaded broadleaf forest and plantation floors and at forest edges, mainly in the north, rare.
TAIPEI: Sanhsia, Peng 8616; Pinglin, Kao 1407. NANTOU: Kuantaohsi, Peng 2202. TAICHUNG: Tungmaoshan, Leu s. n. 1985. CHIAYI: Tapu, Yen 7396.
