Japan Flora: prostrate, elongate, rooting from the nodes, appressed-pilose; leaves chartaceous, lanceolate, sometimes oblong, 2-7 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, acute, abruptly narrowed at base, mucronate- tipped, sessile or short-petiolate, appres沈d-pilose on both surfaces, mucronate-toothed; heads 2-2.5 cm. across, solitary on erect branches, the peduncles 6-12 cm. long; involucres sub- globose, 8-9 mm. long, the bracts 5, nearly equal in length, 1-seriate, oblong, acute or sometimes obtuse, short appressed- pubescent; achenes obovate, 3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, coarsely hairy at tip; pappus vase- or cup-shaped. May-Sept. Seashores;

Honshu (Izn and Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, China, Malaysia, and India.