生活型

herb

形態特徵

• An erect herb; stem 4-angled.
• Leaves elongate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 4–8 cm long, 8–16 cm broad, acute at both ends, pubescent on both surfaces; petioles 5 mm long.
• Flowers 3 mm long, white or pink, subsessile on the elongated branches in terminal cymes; corolla 2–3 mm long, throat villous; style filiform, exserted.
• Fruit ellipsoid, about I mm in diam., indehiscent, 2-seeded.

分布

• 台灣 : in open grasslands in the central and southern parts of the island, and on Lanyu (Botel Tobago) Island.
• 世界 : Tropical Asia to Australia.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Sekihekiko, Sasaki s. n. in 1932; Subon, Matuda 1702. NANTOU: Nantou, Kawakami 1369. PINGTUNG: Kentin, Matuda s. n. 1917. TAITUNG: Lanyu, Chuang & Hsu 2375.

參考文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 274. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)