阿里山鬼督郵

Stems 35-80 cm tall, generally simple, sometimes racemosely branched, densely brown villous initially, glabrate later. Petiole 2.5-4 mm long, long pilose. Lower and middle cauline leaves pseudo-verticillate, ovate-oblong to broadly ovate, 2.5-11×2-4 cm, apex acuminate to acute, base often rounded to truncate, margins subentire to serrate-mucronulate, upper surface green, sparsely pilose, lower surface pale, brown pilose along nerves; leaves on scape bract-like, remote, ovate, acute, 1.5 mm long, sessile. Heads racemosely arranged, tubular, bracts in many series, scariose, outer shorter, ovate, inner oblong to linear; florets 3; corolla 11-13 mm long. Achenes oblanceolate, 6-8×1 mm, slightly compressed, densely hirsute. Pappus brown, 7-10 mm long, bristles plumose.

TAIPEI: Peichatienshan, Peng 7461; Sanhsia, Yang 4988. HSINCHU: Chutung, Wuchihshan, Peng 12936. NANTOU: Patungkuan to Tungpu, Chen 985; Luku, Sunlinksea, Shen 165. CHIAYI: Tienyunshan, Peng 8806; Meishan, Tachienshan, Yen 8511. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Paoshan Village, Ho 938. PINGTUNG: Peitawushan, Peng 13219; Ali, Chaougwolachi, Yang 23814. TAITUNG: Tulanshan, Liu 513. HUALIEN: Chingshuishan, Chen 1798; Fuli, Loshan Waterfall, Chen 409.

Southeastern China. Taiwan, gravelly slopes on mountain ridges, (400-)1,000-2,000(-2,500) m.