Stems 40-60 cm tall, sparsely and minutely hirsute, often branching. Lower leaves small, ovate, petiolate, obtuse; median cauline leaves ovate-oblong, 10-15×5-10 cm, apex often obtuse, base cuneate, petiole 1.5-4 cm long, margins crenate, nearly glabrous on both surfaces; upper leaves smaller and more scattered, those in inflorescence linear, 3-6 mm long. Heads in lax corymbs, 5-15 mm broad; peduncle slender, 7-20 mm long, minutely and densely crisp puberulous; involucres hemispheric, 5×3 mm, bracts 2-seriate, equal, narrowly oblong, apex obtuse, base connate, reflexed; corolla tubular, 2-2.5 mm long, 4-5-fid; style arms 1-2 mm long, shortly exserted; anthers not appendiculate at both ends. Achenes oblong, 2.5-3 mm long, obtuse, 3-angular, densely warty; pappus bristles 3-4.5 mm long.

TAIPEI: Peitou, Faurie 849; Wulai, Kitamura s. n. 1932. MIAOLI: Nanchuang, Hsu 12530. NANTOU: Hsitou, Peng 194.

Central China. Not common in Taiwan.