蓬莱油菊 peng lai you ju

Dendranthema horaimontanum (Masamune) S. S. Ying.

Herbs, perennial. Stems in clumps, erect, densely silvery sericeous. Stem leaves obovate in outline, 1-3 × 0.5-2 cm, abaxially densely silvery sericeous, adaxially sparsely hairy, pinnatifid or pinnatipartite. Uppermost and lowermost leaves smaller. Capitula ca. 2 cm in diam., solitary, long pedunculate. Involucres subglobose, ca. 5 × 10-13 mm; outer phyllaries 3-6 × 1-3 mm, inner ones 4-6 × 2-3 mm. Ray florets white; lamina ca. 6 × 2.5 mm; disk florets greenish yellow, ca. 2 mm.

● Rocky slopes; 1200-1400 m. Taiwan.