Japan Flora: Leaves spreading, lingulate-lanceolate, 7-10 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. wide, obtuse, pubescent, pinnately cleft; scapes commonly shorter than the leaves, prominently hairy; heads small, 3-3.5 cm. across; involucres small, 12-14 mm. long, the outer bracts erect, ovate-oblong, gradually acute to acuminate, usually not corniculate or sometimes so, more than half as long as the in­ner, reddish at tip, the inner bracts linear-1 anccolatc, scarious on margin, blackish, with a small hornlike tubercle at apex; achcncs oblong, 4-4.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, angled, with spinelike tubercles on upper part.

Honshu (Sagami Prov.).