生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Herbs, somewhat succulent, stems 8–15 cm high, terete, pubescent; branches few, ascending.
• Leaves elliptic, oblong or oblong-ovate, 2.5–4 cm long, 8–17 mm wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate or rounded when young, margins undulate, deep green above, much paler green beneath, glabrous except the nerves on the lower side; lateral veins 6–7 per side; petioles 8 mm long or less, pubescent.
• Flowers 4–7, in axillary or terminal racemes; racemes to 7 cm long, rachis slightly pubescent, sometimes branched at base; pedicel about 2 mm long, subtended by a linear green bract, bearing a pair of linear bracteoles 1 mm below the distal end; calyx deeply 5-partite, segments linear, subequal, 5–6 mm long, margins sparingly hirsute; corolla white, to 1 cm long, glabrous, the basal one half tubular, the upper portion subinflated, the limb 5-lobed, the lobes subequal, spreading; stamens 4, included, inserted below middle of corolla tube, filaments strigose; ovary 1.8 mm long, glabrous, style ca. 8 mm long, glabrous, stigma lobed; capsule oblong, compressed, about 6 mm long, glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : found in the Nanjenshan Nature Reserve of the Kenting National Park, Pingtung Hsien, southern Taiwan
• 世界 : The Philippines.

引證標本

Pingtung Hsien: Nanjenshan, Nanjen Lake. Shu-Chuan Liu and Mr. Chao-Chien Wang s. n. Aug. 19. 1998: Sheng-Chieh Wu & Su-Wei Fan 1751, 1752 (TAI)

引用文獻

• Chang-Fu Hsieh, Jenn-Che Wang and Chun-Neng Wang, Taiwania 44(2): 306. 1999.