Acilepis divergens (DC.) H. Rob. & Skvarla

Robust herbs to subshrubs, 1–3 m tall. Stems erect, inconspicuously ribbed, pilose-villose or tomentose. Leaves 10–13 by 3–5 cm, ovate or elliptic, margin serrate, apex acute, base attenuate, subcoriaceous; both surfaces scabrous with whip-shaped hairs and capitate glands; lateral veins 6–10-paired; petioles up to 1 cm long. Capitulescences terminal and axillary, corymbose. Capitula narrowly campanulate, subsessile or shortly pedunculate, 9–10 mm long. Receptacle flat, ca. 1 mm in diam., glabrous. Involucres narrowly campanulate or slightly oblong-cylindrical, in 3–4 series, 4–5 mm long, 3–3.5 mm in diam., herbaceous. Phyllaries green or purple apically, margin piliferous, outer surface arachnoid, glandular; the outer and the middle ones ovate, acuminate or apiculate; the inner ones lanceolate to oblong, apex acuminate. Florets 6–10; corollas funnelform, purple, glandular; corolla tubes 4–5 mm long; corolla lobes 2–2.5 mm long. Anthers 2–2.5 mm long, apical appendage acute, base obtuse. Styles purple, 5–6 mm long, branches 1.5–2 mm long. Achenes obovate, ca. 2 mm long, 10-ribbed, glandular. Pappus bristles, the inner ones 4–5 mm long.

Thailand: Chiang Mai, Phayao, Nan, Tak, Sukhothai, Loei, Kanchanaburi. China (Yunnan), India, Myanmar, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam.