五裂蟹甲草(原变种) wu lie xie jia cao (yuan bian zhong)

Prenanthes quinqueloba Wallich ex Candolle, Prodr. 7: 195. 1838; Cacalia pentaloba Handel-Mazzetti; C. quinqueloba (Wallich ex Candolle) Kitamura; Koyamacalia quinqueloba (Wallich ex Candolle) H. Robinson & Brettell; Senecio quinquelobus (Wallich ex Candolle) J. D. Hooker & Thomson ex C. B. Clarke (1876), not (Thunberg) Candolle (1838).

Leaf blade margin lobed in distal 1/3. Capitula arranged in narrow panicles.

Understories of Quercus or Abies forests, alpine meadows; 2800-4100 m. SW Sichuan, Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, N India, Myanmar, Nepal].