Japan Flora: Stemless; leaves linear, flat, gradually narrowed to­ward apex, 2.5-5 cm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, 5-nerved; peduncles 7-9 cm. tall, 4-ribbed; heads turbinate, 3-4 mm. across, light yellow, more than 10-flowered; involucral bracts several (5 or 6), lanceolate, acute, 4-6 mm. long, greenish, 3- nerved, exceeding the disc flowers; floral bracts obovate- oblong, sparsely puberulous on the upper margin, slightly shorter than the flowers; flowers wholly trimerous; staminate flowers to 2 mm. long, the sepals oblong, obtuse-tipped, con­nate below, sparsely ciliolate on the upper margin, the corolla tubular, trilobate at apex; pistillate flowers shortly pedicellate, 2 mm. long, the sepals oblong, acutish, whitish, nearly gla­brous, the petals 3, free, oblong, pilose inside, the stigmas 3.    

Honshu (only in Kodzushima, Izu Prov.).