Malan head is a perennial herb of the genus Malan in the family Asteraceae, with creeping rhizomes, sometimes with taproots. The stem is erect, 30-70 cm tall, with short hairs in the upper part, branched in the upper part or from the lower part, and the basal leaves are withered at the flowering stage;

The stem leaves are oblanceolate or obovate-matrix-rounded, 3-6-6 cm long and up to 10 cm wide, 0.8-2 cm wide and up to 5 cm wide, with an obtuse or pointed tip and a long, narrowed, winged petiole, and the margins are obtuse or cuspidate with small cusps or pinnately lobed from the middle onwards, and the upper leaves are small, entire, and sharply narrowed at the base without a long stalk. entire, base sharply narrowed and sessile;

The involucre is hemispherical, 6-9 mm in diameter, 4-5 mm long; the involucral bracts are 2-3-layered, imbricate; the outer layer is oblanceolate, 2 mm long, and the inner layer is oblanceolate-rectangular, up to 4 mm long, with an obtuse or slightly pointed tip, and is herbaceous and sparsely short-hairy distally, and with membranous margins, ciliate.

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Marram head is widely adapted. p>Malan head widely adaptable, temperature-loving is also more tolerant of shade, cold and heat resistance is very strong, light requirements are not strict, in the 32 ℃ high temperature can be normal growth in -10 ℃ can be safe below the overwinter;

when the local temperature rebounded to 10 ~ 12 ℃, the temperature of 10 ~ 15 ℃, the young leaves and young stems will begin to grow rapidly. Seed germination temperature at about 20 ℃, young leaves and young stems of the harvest period is mainly concentrated in March to April.

Widely distributed in southern and eastern Asia.