生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs with short rhizomes; stems erect, 40–70 cm long, often branched upward.
• Leaves rather thick, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 4–8 cm long, 5–8 mm wide, apex acute, margins sparsely few-serrate near apex, ascending-hairy on both surfaces especially on midrib beneath.
• Spikes terminal, erect, densely many-flowered, 10–30 cm long; calyx ca. 2 mm long, 4-cleft, lobes obtuse, ciliate; corolla ca. 6 mm across, bluish purple.
• Fruit a depressed-orbicular inflated capsule slightly longer than calyx, retuse, style persistent 6–7 mm long; seeds minute.

分布

• 台灣 : in open fields and grasslands between 1,900 and 2,300 m.
• 世界 : Siberia, Korea, Mangolia, Japan and China.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Suzuki s. n. 1922. TAICHUNG: Hsueshan, Kuo 3948; Chika, Huang 7065. NANTOU: Tsuefeng, Hsu 11587; Tunyuan, Tang 1824. CHIAYI: Yushan, Sasaki s. n. 1926.

引用文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 636. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)