Acilepis sutepensis (Kerr) H. Rob. & Skvarla

Perennial herbs, 60–150 cm tall. Stems erect, conspicuously ribbed, villose. Leaves rosulate, 10–14 by 4–7 cm, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, margin serrate, apex acuminate, base cuneate or acuminate, subcoriaceous; both surfaces scabrous with whip-shaped hairs and capitate glands, lateral veins 9–11-paired; petioles up to 10 mm long. Capitulescences terminal and axillary, paniculate. Capitula campanulate, 10–15 mm long, pedunculate. Receptacle flat, 1.5–3 mm in diam., glabrous. Involucres narrowly campanulate, in 5–6 series, 8–10 mm long, 3–4 mm in diam., herbaceous. Phyllaries light green or purple apically, margin piliferous, outer surface sparsely arachnoid with capitate glands; the outer and the middle ones ovate or lanceolate, apex apiculate or aristate; the inner ones ovate-lanceolate to oblong, apex apiculate. Florets 13–20; corollas funnelform, purple, glandular; corolla tubes 7–8 mm long; corolla lobes 3–4 mm long. Anthers 3.5–4 mm long, apical appendage acute, base obtuse. Styles purple, 7–9 mm long, branches 3–3.5 mm long. Achenes subterete, 2–3.5 mm long, 10-ribbed, pubescent with twin hairs and capitate glands. Pappus bristles, the inner ones 8–9 mm long.

Thailand: Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lamphun, Lampang, Nan. Endemic.