About Eupatorium amabile Kitam.
Eupatorium amabile Kitam. is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and it is endemic to Taiwan. This shrub grows to approximately 1 meter in height. It has more or less upright stems and slender branches, which are densely covered in glandular villous hairs near their tips. The leaves are 9 to 12 centimeters long and 4 to 3.5 centimeters wide, medium green on the upper surface and pale green on the lower surface. They have an ovate or ovate-oblong shape, with rounded bases, mucronate-serrate margins, and a long acuminate apex. The plant produces terminal corymbs that each hold 9 to 15 flowers, and these flowers have whitish pappus. Its achenes are black, 2.5 millimeters long, and sparsely covered in villous hairs.
