Annual juicy herbs, 30-150 cm tall; stems slightly branched. Leaves elliptic, oblong or ovate-elliptic, 5-18×1-10 cm, tapering into petiole, irregularly pinnately lobed, irregularly serrate. Heads in terminal corymbs, nodding at anthesis, afterwards erect; involucre narrowly campanulate, 8-10 mm long, broadened at base, outer bracteoles linear, unequal, much shorter than inner bracts; corolla yellow-green, limb reddish brown, occasionally yellow. Achenes cylindric, slightly contracted toward base and apex, deep red brown, 10-ribbed, with appressed white hairs in furrows. Pappus ca. 12 mm long, sparsely puberulent between ribs.

TAIPEI: Nankang, Peng 11093; Chuchihhu, Tateishi et al. 16430. HSINCHU: Shanchiao, Peng 10403. MIAOLI: Houlong, Peng 11583; Kuanwu, Peng 9415. NANTOU: Shuili, Peng 11386; Chingjing Farm, Peng 6093. KAOHSIUNG: Tengchih, Peng 11217. PINGTUNG: Neipu, Lin 477. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Wagner 6696. HUALIEN: Hsiulin, Leu 1442.

Native of tropical Africa, widely naturalized in the tropics and subtropics. Taiwan, a common weed along roadsides, in waste fields and in deforested areas at low to mid elevations.