Struchium sparganophorum (L.) Kuntze

Annual, 20–50 cm tall. Stems erect, inconspicuously ribbed, puberulous. Leaves 4–12 by 2–15 cm, elliptic, pubescent, margin serrate, apex acute, base attenuate, chartaceous; both surfaces puberulous with cylindrical hairs and capitate glands; lateral veins 7–11-paired; petioles up to 12 mm long. Capitulescences axillary, solitary or clustered. Capitula hemispherical, sessile, 4–6 mm in diam. Receptacle convex, 2–2.5 mm in diam., glabrous. Involucres 3–4 series, 3–4 mm long, imbricate, hemispherical. Phyllaries light green, margin piliferous, outer surface puberulous without glands; the outer ovate to lanceolate, apex acute to acuminate; the inner ones obovate-lanceolate, apex acuminate. Florets 50–70; corollas funnelform, white, glandular; corolla tubes 1–1.5 mm long; corolla lobes 3–4, 0.5–1 mm long. Anthers ca. 1 mm long, apical appendage acute, base acute. Styles purple, ca. 2 mm long, branches 1–1.5 mm long, inner surface covered with stigmatic papillae. Achenes turbinate, 3–4-angular, 1–1.5 mm long, 3–5-ribbed, glandular. Pappus of 3–4 parts, coroniform, ca. 1 mm long, whitish.

Thailand: Lamphun, Nakhon Phanom, Kanchanaburi, Bangkok, Ranong, Phangnga, Krabi, Trang, Songkhla, Yala. Tropics.

Struchium sparganophorum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Cúc. Loài này được (L.) Kuntze miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1891.