生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial decumbent to ascending herbs. Stems much-branched, glabrous or sparingly pubescent with bladder-like hairs.
• Leaves flat, glabrescent or pubescent with bladder-like hairs, elliptic to obovate, 1-5 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, obtuse to retuse at apex, rounded to cuneate at base, petioles 0.5-2.5 cm long.
• Flowers solitary, sessile, hidden in leaf axils; tepals adnate to leaf bases, greenish outside, whitish to pinkish inside, linear to narrowly trullate, 4-5 mm long; stamens many; ovary 1-celled, style 1.
• Capsule ovoid, 2-3 mm long; seeds 2-8 per capsule, dull black.

分布

• 台灣 : sandy seashores in the southern part of the island and on adjacent islets.
• 世界 : Pantropical.

引證標本

YUNLIN: Taihsi, Yang 504. TAINAN: Annping, Peng 2809. KAOHSIUNG: Chiating, Yang 2035; Kaohsiung, Kuo 112179. PENGHU: Chimetao, Huang s. n.; Wangan, Leu 2068*. PINGTUNG: Fongkang, Huang 24611. TAITUNG: Lutao, Huang & Kao 6941.

引用文獻

• LIU, HO-YIH, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 331. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)