Stems erect, 25-35 cm tall, striate, branching, cobwebby, becoming glabrous. Leaves thick, rosulate, oblong-lanceolate, 20-40 x 5-7 cm, apex acute, base attenuate, sessile, pinnati-lobed, segments broadly deltoid, incised, white cobwebby-hairy on both surfaces, apical spine 4-6 mm long; upper leaves gradually smaller, oblong. Heads terminal, erect, subtended by 1-4 leaves 3-4 cm long; involucre campanulate, 2.2-2.6 x 2.6-3 cm, bracts 6-seriate, erect, cobwebby, outer ones elongate, 1/3 -1/2 as long as inner ones, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, apex short spinulose, ascending, margins entire; corolla pink, 22-25 mm long, apex shortly 5-lobed, tube narrower, about as long as or slightly shorter than limb. Achenes oblong, compressed, 4 mm long, obsoletely 4-ribbed; pappus 16-20 mm long. Chromosome number, 2n = 34 (Peng & Hsu, 1978).
ILAN: Nanshan, Huang 7713, Peng 2441. HUALIEN: Hosokawa 5058; Kuanyuan to Pilu, Peng 9192.
Endemic; exposed slopes in eastern Taiwan, 2,000-2,500 m.
