Japan Flora: Stemless plant; leaves tufted, ascending, linear, 3-15 cm. long, less than 3 mm. wide, subulate at apex. more or less flattened; peduncles 1-3(-5), erect, 20-40 cm. long, 4-ribbed, loosely twisted; heads globose, 6-8 mm. long, 5-7 mm. across, densely white-pilose; involucral bracts 6-10, broadly lanceolate, obtuse; floral bracts rhomboid-lanceolate, more or less deltoid above, obtuse, 3 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, with 2- or 3-celled hairs outside and on the upper mar­gin; flowers trimerous, numerous; receptacle pilose; staminate flowers about 3 mm. long, with an obovate, hyaline spathe, truncate and 3-lobed at the densely villose apex; pistillate flowers slighdy longer than the staminate, the calyx spathelikc, ovate-rhomboid, the apex densely villose and 3-lobed, pilose in­side and outside, the petals 3, free, oblanceolate, pilose in­side, pubescent at the apex, the stigmas 3, almost as long as the style.  Wet places around springs in low hills.

Honshu (Mikawa, Owari, Mino, and Ise Prov.); locally abundant.