生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb, glabrous except for glandular hairs on leaves above; stems slender, from a small subterranean tuber, sparingly branched above.
• Leaves lunate to semi-orbicular, with caudate drawn-out basal lobes, peltate, glandular-hairy along margins above.
• Racemes terminal, 2-10-flowered; flowers white, sepals ovate, fimbriate; petals oblong-obovate, white, 5-7 mm long; stamens 5; styles 3-4-parted, penicillate.
• Capsules nearly globose, ca. 2.5 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : in sunny grassy places and along roadsides.
• 世界 : India to Japan and southward to Tasmania. The typical phase occurs in eastern Asia, India, Australia and Tasmania.

引證標本

TAOYUAN: Tanaka 13536. HSINCHU: Kuanwu. Liao & Kuo 1553*.

參考文獻

• LIU, TANG-SHUI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 716. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)