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Dendranthema parvifolium (C. C. Chang) C. Shih.

Herbs, to 100 cm or more. Stems striate, pale brown, corymbosely branched above middle, branches slender, ascending, internodes shorter than leaves. Leaves ovate in outline, ca. 1.5 × 1 cm, abaxially densely hairy, adaxially shortly pilosulose, shallowly pinnatifid, lateral segments often 2-paired, subovate, entire or 1- or 2-denticulate, acute or shortly apiculate, base cuneate into indistinct petiole, apex subacuminate. Ray florets purple, small; disk florets yellow.

● Rocky slopes, near small rivers. Guizhou.

Chrysanthemum parvifolium seems to be known only from the type (Cavalerie 4233, P). It was likened by the author to C. vestitum.