生活型

undershrub

形態特徵

• An erect undershrub, 1–2 m high; woody branches densely clothed with short brown pubescent hairs.
• Leaves simple, scabrous, usually triangular-ovate or orbicular ovate, up to 5–6 cm long, the base rounded, but often cordate, slightly repand along the margins, and densely alothed with short soft brown hairs on both surfaces; petioles 1 cm long, stout, densely pubescent; stipules awl-shaped from a much broader base.
• Pseudoracemes of dense Flowers, axillary of terminal, 2 mm long, densely pubescent; bracts minute, setaceous; calyx about the same length as the bract, densely hairy, the teeth lanceolate, as long as the tube; corolla 3–4 times longer than the calyx.
• Pods with minute hooked-hairs, 2 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, 4–5-jointed, the upper suture slightly constricted.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, in the open place, including roadside, wasteland, at elevation below 500 m high, in the southern part.
• 世界 : Tropical Africa and Asia;

引證標本

TAINAN: Nanhua, Huang 3295. TAITUNG: Hsinwulu, Huang 3209.

參考文獻

• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Taiwania 32(1): 11-118. 1987.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 268. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)