生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Strongly foetid perennial herb with deeply buried, much-branched thin rhizomes. Stems ascending, ca. 35 cm tall, glabrous.
• Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, 4-7 cm long, 4-6.5 cm wide, acuminate, often with red margins, hairy on nerves; petioles 1-5 cm long, often red. Spikes densely flowered, 2-3 cm long; peduncles 2-3 cm long, glabrous; involucral bracts usually 4, spex rounded, oval or oval-oblong, 1.5-2 cm long, 2.5-3 cm wide, marcescent and reflexed after anthesis.
• Flowers sessile; anthers bright yellow; ovary 3-, rarely 4-lobed.

分布

• 台灣 : in shady places in forests at low altitudes throughout the island.
• 世界 : The Himalayas, mainland China, Japan, the Ryukyus, Malaysia and Java.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yangmingshan, Huang s. n. 1961. KEELUNG: Keelung, Sasaki s. n. 1931. ILAN: Suao, Suzuki s. n. 1930; Taipingshan, Suzuki s. n. 1929. TAOYUAN: Chiaopanshan, Hayata s. n. 1914. HSINCHU: Nanchuang, Shimada 1869c. NANTOU: Wushe, Sasaki s. n. 1922; Chitou, Liu & Kuo 733. TAITUNG: Yamamoto s. n. 1930; Lanyu, Masamune s. n. 1943.

引用文獻

• LIU, TANG-SHUI and WANG, HSIEN-CHIH, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 620. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)