台东阿尔泰狗娃花 tai dong a er tai gou wa hua

Heteropappus altaicus var. taitoensis (Kitamura) Y. Ling.

Plants green, ca. 50 cm tall. Stems branched from base, densely spreading and ascending appressed hairy. Lower leaves withered by anthesis, oblanceolate-linear or linear, 3-6 × 0.1-0.2(-0.4) mm, margin entire or remotely toothed; middle leaves 2-3 × ca. 0.1 cm; upper leaves small, similar to phyllaries. Involucres 1.5-1.8 cm in diam.; outer phyllaries leaflike, inner phyllaries with narrowly scarious margin, densely hairy.

● Sandy places by riverbanks. Taiwan (Taidong).