Perennial herbs, erect, 50-120 cm tall, with a fibrous rootstock. Stems terete, usually unbranched or sometimes branched from base, densely silky-villous to woolly particularly on younger shoots. Leaves obovate-spatulate, 12-14×4-5 cm, apex obtuse or acute, base attenuate into petiole, margins minutely denticulate to nearly doubly denticulate, silky-villous on upper surface, densely sericeous to wooly on lower surface, veins 5 or 6 pairs. Heads 9-11 mm long, 5-6 mm across, in crowded axillary and terminal clusters, forming dense interrupted spicate inflorescences, sessile. Involucre globose-lanceolate, 3-4×0.6-0.7 mm, densely silky villous abaxially; inner bracts linear, 6-7 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, margins ciliate. Receptacle convex, 2-4 mm across, alveolate, glabrous. Central florets yellow, 7-8 mm long, with 5 broadly triangular lobes, lobes with colleters and sparse multicellular hairs. Outer florets 6-7 mm long, 2 or 3 lobed. Achenes oblong, 1-1.2×0.25 mm, ribbed, sparsely pubescent. Pappus white, 3-4 mm long. Chromosome number, 2n = 48 (Peng & Hsu, 1978).

TAIPEI: Nankangshan, Peng 9136. ILAN: Lotung, Yamamoto 3768. TAOYUAN: Sanchiaoyung, Sasaki s. n. 1910. HSINCHU: Yiminmiao, Wang 1277. MIAOLI: Tsohu, Kawakamii s. n. 1908. TAICHUNG: Tali, Yamamoto & Suzuki s. n. 1933. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Peng 5530. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Peng 10718.

Southern and southeastern Asia and China. Taiwan, lowland.