Japan Flora: Stemless annual; leaves radical, erect-ascending, cinereous green, 2-4 cm. long, 2.5-3 mm. wide, 5- to 7-nerved; peduncles 8-10 cm. tall, 5-angled; heads globose, many-flowered, 4-5 mm. in diameter; involucral bracts many, ovate-deltoid, tinctly short-awned, about 2.5 mm. long including the awn; flowers wholly dimerous, the staminate apetalous with gray anthers, the pistillate with 2 free winged sepals, apetalous; stigmas 2, very rarely 3.  

Kyushu (Hyuga Prov.); rare. s. China, Indochina, and India.