生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; rhizome erect to ascending, rather thin, fibrillose; stem up to 12 cm high, procumbent, rooting at ends and producing dense rosettes of leaves and flowers.
• Leaves 0.5–3 cm long, 1–2 cm broad, ovate or elliptic, cordate at base, subacute to rounded or obtuse at apex, crenate to serrate-crenate on margin, long decurrent on petiole, hirsute, herbaceous; petioles 1–7 cm long; stipules 5–9 mm long, 1–1.5 mm broad, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, dentate to ciliate on margin, free.
• Flowers 7–13 mm across, pale violet to almost white; peduncles 1.5–7 cm long, exceeding leaves; sepals 3–6 mm long, 1–1.5 mm broad, lanceolate, acute at apex, sparsely pubescent, fimbrio-ciliate on margin, green; appendages up to 0.5 mm long, rounded, fimbrio-ciliate; petals obovate, the basal one shortest, acute at apex, the lateral ones beardless or rarely sparsely bearded; spurs 0.5–1 mm long, obtuse; styles ca. 1.2 mm long, geniculate at base, clavate distally, with two lateral lobes at apex and anterior stigmatic beak.
• Capsules 4–6 mm long, ellipsoid, glabrous. Seeds ovoid, ca. 0.8 mm long.
• Chromosome number n=37.

分布

• 台灣 : New record to Taiwan.
• 世界 : South China, the Philippines and New Guinea.

引證標本

NANTOU: Meifeng, Wang 3884. PINGTUNG: Amawansya, Sasaki s. n. 1920; TAITUNG: Payuchih (Kwehu), Wang 3445; Taito, Kawakami s. n. 1905.

引用文獻

• WANG, JENN-CHE and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 833. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)