台湾帚菊 tai wan zhou ju

Pertya scandens (Thunberg) Schultz Bipontinus var. simozawae (Masamune) Kitamura.

Shrubs. Leaves on long shoots alternate, petiole 1-3 mm, leaf blade ovate, 2-5 × 1.5-4.5 cm, papery, 3-veined, both surfaces sparsely villous, base rounded, margin mucronulate-dentate, apex acute or obtuse; leaves on branchlets tufted, 3 or 4, leaf blade ovate, deciduous, both surfaces sparsely villous, apex acute. Capitula solitary, terminal on long shoots, ca. 13-flowered; involucre campanulate, 1.4-1.7 cm; phyllaries ca. 7-seriate, outer phyllaries ovate, inner narrowly oblong, ca. 1.2 cm. Florets bisexual, corolla tubular, ca. 1.3 cm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes linear, revolute. Achenes obconic, ca. 5.5 mm, densely white villous, ribbed; pappus 1.1-1.2 cm. Fl. Nov.

● Open forests; 300-1400 m. Taiwan.