Tagulinaw (Tag.)

An erect or ascending, variable, smooth or sparingly hairy, more or less branched plant. Height: 10 to 40 centimeters high Leaves: Leaves are sessile, somewhat fleshy and clasping, the lower ones being lyrate-lobed or sinuate toothed and 5 to 10 centimeters long, and the upper ones much smaller and usually entire. Undersurface is usually tinged with violet hue. Flowers: Flowering heads are 12 to 24 millimeters in length and long-peduncled; the branches are usually dichotomous. Involucral-bracts are green, cylindric, somewhat inflated below, and about as long as the purple flowers. Flowers all perfect and tubular, the limb long, 5-toothed. No ray flowers. The pappus is white, soft and copious. Fruits: Fruits are achenes, narrowly oblong, about 2.4 millimeters long and ribbed.