生活型

herb

形態特徵

• A suffrutescent herb, usually creeping. Stem pubscent.
• Leaves cordate, ca. 4.0–7.0 cm long, 3.0–6.0 cm wide; apex acuminate; base cordate; margin crenate to serrate; stellate on both surfaces; petioles sessile or near so, ca. 0.2-0.5 cm long; stipules linear.
• Flowers yellow, solitary and axillary; pedicels 2.0–4.0 cm long; calyx green, disc-shaped, densely pubescent, 5-lobed, segments ovate, ca. 0.3-0.4 cm long, apex acuminate; corolla ca. 1.0 cm across, petals 5, yellow, glabrous, obovate or broadly obovate, ca. 0.5 cm long; staminal tube glabrous; carpels about 15, densely pubescent.
• Capsules globular or pumpkin-form, ca. 1.0–2.0 cm across, composed of 10–15 pubesent carpels, without beaked at apex; persistent calyx much shorter than capsule; seeds many, dark brown, ca. 0.2 cm long, sparse bristle.

分布

• 台灣 : only found in waste places or along roadside of central part of the island.
• 世界 : The species originally distributed around tropical and subtropical America, and now it is found from Australia, Vietnam, Mainland China (Hainan Prov.) and India.

引證標本

CHANGHUA: Hsihu, Kao 10183; Shengkang, A.T.Y.Yang & Su 6187.

參考文獻

• CHANG, CHING-EN abutilon by YANG, ALECK TSUNG-YU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 739. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)