分枝鼠麴草

Stems 30-40 cm long, erect, rigid, branching, densely woolly. Lower leaves smaller than cauline; cauline leaves numerous, oblanceolate-linear, 5-5.5×0.5 mm, apex acute, mucronulate, base narrowed, sessile, upper surface green, sparsely woolly, lower surface woolly, 1-nerved, margins entire; upper leaves linear, 1-3 cm×2-5 mm. Cymes axillary, densely subcapitate, 1-1.5 cm across; involucre campanulate, 3×2.5 mm; bracts scarious, brownish; outer ones shorter, oblong, inner ones linear, apex acute. Corolla of outer florets ca. 2.5 mm long; style of central florets ca. 2.5 mm long. Achenes oblong, 0.6 mm long, compressed, papillose. Pappus white, 2.5 mm long.

TAICHUNG: Wuling Farm, Peng 11982. NANTOU: Shanchiaofeng, Wu 1011. CHIAYI: Alishan, Feung & Kao 4905. TAITUNG: Hsiangyang, Peng 11865. HUALIEN: Kuanyuan, Peng 9604; Tzuen, Peng 5980.

Tropical Asia to Australia. Taiwan, on slopes in mid elevations.