生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Glabrous perennial herbs, 15–60 cm tall.
• Leaves radical, obovate-lanceolate or spatulate, 3–9 cm long, 1–2 cm wide , apex obtuse or rounded, narrowly cuneate from middle to the broad petiole, the margins entire; lateral veins ca. 3 per side, inconspicuous.
• Flowers pale yellow to cream colored, in compact corymbose panicles of 2 or 3-flowered spikelets, panicle 15–45 mm long, with acutely angled branches; bracts ovate, ca. 2 mm long; calyx 6–7 mm long, lobes rounded or erose, white, ribs white-pilose; corolla funnelform, 5-lobed, about as long as calyx; ovary ovoid, styles 5, filiform, glabrous.
• Fruit cylindrical, ca. 3 mm long, 1 mm broad, walls thin; seeds ca. 2 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : sandy shores and salt marshes.
• 世界 : Japan, the Ryukyus and China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shihmen, Peng 9333. KEELUNG: Keelung, Huang 1126; Keelungyu, Peng 14112. MIAOLI: Chunan, Lin 584; Szukunshan, Wang 873. CHANGHUA: Fubao, Kao et al. 054. CHIAYI: Putai, Wang 7880; Auku, Liao 1698. TAINAN: Szutsao, Yang 6506. PENGHU: Tungpanyu, Chen 732; Yungan Bridge, Hwang s. n. 1992. PINGTUNG: Liuchiuyu, Liu 469.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 80. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)