Japan Flora: Stems 0.5-1.5 m. long, cobwebby; lower cauline leaves elliptic- lanceolate, 25-60 cm. long, short-acuminate to acute, petiolate, pinnatifid, the lobes ovate to oblong, 5 or 6 pairs, acute, coarsely incised-toothed, glabrous on both sides or short-pubes­cent beneath, the spines 2-3 mm. long; heads erect at anthesis, usually bracteate; involucres depressed-globose, 1.8-2 cm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, cobwebby; bracts 6-seriate, the outer and median linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, elongate, spreading or slightly recurved on upper half; corollas purplish, 16-17 nim. long.

Honshu (Hachijo and Ooshima in Izu).