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Ligularia kojimae Kitam., Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 3: 135. 1934; Mem. Coll. Sci. Kyoto Imp. Univ., Ser. B, Biol. 16(3): 191, pl. 7: fig. 1. 1942; Li, Fl. Taiwan 4: 908, pl. 1242. 1978.

高山橐吾

Ligularia kojimae

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Stems to 45 cm tall, simple, glabrous, sparsely woolly apically. Radical leaves long petiolate, reniform, 2.3-5.5(-6)×3.5-5.5 cm, apex subtruncate to rounded, base distinctly cordate, margins irregularly mucronulate-denticulate, upper surface green, lower surface pale, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole 8-10 cm long, not winged, clasping at base; cauline leaves few, 1 or 2. Inflorescence simple racemes. Heads 5-11; peduncle to 9 mm long, subtended by lanceolate, bract-like leaves 8-12 mm long. Involucre tubular, 1×0.4 cm, bracts 5, linear, puberulous. Ray florets 2 or 3; corolla 20×1.5-2.4 mm, 3-lobed. Achenes glabrous. Pappus 4 mm long; bristles unequal, tawny. Aug.-Oct.

MIAOLI: Tapachienshan, Peng 8549. NANTOU: Chilaishan, Lai s. n. 1998.

Alpine endemic; in moist places at about 3,000 m.


 

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