Stems simple, not branched, erect, 10-25 cm tall, densely grayish tomentose, leafy apically. Cauline leaves thin, erect, oblong, 3-4×0.9-1.2 cm, apex shortly acute, base sessile, short decurrent, margins entire, grayish woolly tomentose on both surfaces, upper surface green, lower surface pale, upper leaves smaller. Inflorescence densely corymbose. Heads heterogamous; involucre hemispheric, 5×9 mm, involucral bracts 5-series, middle bracts brownish near base; outer florets numerous, 2.5 mm long; pappus bristles slender, scabrid, whitish, caducous.

CHIAYI: Paiyunshanchuang to Yushan, Leu 222. NANTOU: Hohuashan, Ying s. n. 1990. HUALIEN: Chilaishan, Lai s. n. 1998.

The Himalayas from Kunawar to Sikkim and Tibet. Taiwan, in alpine meadows, rare.