Japan Flora: Stems 30-40 cm. long, densely leafy, cobwebby and often short- pubescent; lower cauline leaves lanceolate, 17-27 cm. long, narrowly long-acuminate, narrowed at base, usually short- pubescent above, glabrous or the nerves pubescent beneath, sessile or the petiole winged, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes 6-9 pairs, acuminate, spines stout, 5-10 mm. long; median leaves sometimes partially clasping; heads in spikes, erect or ascend­ing at anthesis, bracteate; involucres campanulate, 1.6-1.7 cm. long, 2-2.3 cm. wide; bracts 6-seriate, slightly cobwebby, the outer ovate, acuminate, elongate, spine-tipped, the median oblong, acuminate; corollas purplish, about 16 mm. long. Mountains.

Kyushu (Yakushima).