生活型

herb

形態特徵

• A biennual fleshy herb; stems 20–60 cm long, ascending or erect.
• Leaves alternate, sessile, spathulate-oblanceolate, 10–15 mm long, 2–4 mm broad, rounded or obtuse at apex, stiped at base, entire; axillary bulblets 4–6, rarely 2 or 8–10.
• Flowers in terminal cymes, 5-merous; sepals free, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 2–4 mm long, greenish, ascending at the blossom; petals free, linear-oblanceolate to narrow-oblanceolate, 4–5 mm long, acute at apex, plat-spreading at blossom, yellow; stamens shorter than petals, dark yellow at mature, almost no pollen grain; glands obovate, 0.6 mm long, semi-hyaline white; pistils 3–4 mm long, ovary 2.5–3 mm long, connate about 1 mm at base; style 1 mm long.
• usually no seed; asexual reproduction by axillary buds.

物候

Flowering period from April to June.

分布

• 台灣 : only found in Chitou, a naturalized species.
• 世界 : Southern China and Japan.

引證標本

NANTOU: Chitou, Tang 1800*.

引用文獻

• TANG, WEI-SHIN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 17. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)