生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annual herb, stems tufted, much branched, terete, 1 mm across, hairy, branches ascending or erect, 5-6 cm long.
• Leaves ovate, 2-2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, acute at apex, cordate or rounded at base, chartaceous, margins entire and ciliate, midrib impressed above and elevated beneath, subglabrous above, hirsute beneath along midrib and lateral veins.
• Flowers several in terminal and axillary cymes, long-pedicellate; pedicels 1.5-3 cm long, subglabrous; bracts small, opposite, oblong, 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse at apex; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm long, 1 mm wide, acuminate, more or less contracted at base, hyaline, entire, glabrous; petals 5, deeply bifid, lobes linear-lanceolate 2-2.5 mm long, 2.25 mm wide, obtuse at apex, attenuate at base; stamens 10, filaments slightly connate at base, 2 mm long; ovary ovoid, 1-1.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide, styles 3, 0.5 mm long, recurved at apex.
• Capsules ovoid, 3-3.5 mm long, 6-valved; seeds small, oblong, 0.6 mm long, more or less complanate, obtuse on both ends, red, rugose.

分布

• 台灣 : 800-1,700 m, in northern part of the island, uncommon.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Suzuki 7150. ILAN: Taipingshan, Suzuki 99.

引用文獻

• YING, SHAO-SHUN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 379. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)