生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Herb to 40 cm tall; stems prostrate and rooting at nodes below, slightly hirsute with the hairs arranged in 2 rows.
• Leaves membranaceous, long-petiolate, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–8 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, the apex acuminate, the base cuneate or attenuate, the margins undulate, both surfaces nearly glabrous, the lateral veins 4–7 per side; petioles 1–3 cm long, pubescent.
• Spikes to 4 cm long, usually simple, terminal or axillary; peduncles 1–2 cm long; sterile bracts falcate-lanceolate, 8–10 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, margins narrowly scarious, ciliate; fertile bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the margins broadly scarious, ciliate; bracteoles ovate, about 6 mm long; corolla bluish, ca. 1.5 cm long, glandular-punctate without, the limb bilabiate, the upper lip broad, 3-lobed at apex; stamens exserted about 3 mm beyond the mouthof the corolla-tube; filaments glabrous; ovary glabrous; style about 1 cm long, glabrous.
• Capsule ovoid, 5–6 cm long.

分布

• 台灣 : In the central and southern mountains at 1,000–1,500 m.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Pahsienshan, Suzuki 5598. NANTOU: Sun Moon Lake, Suzuki 427; Chitou, Hsieh 1250. CHIAYI: Mt. Ali, Sasaki s. n. 1928. KAOHSIUNG: Shanping, Hsieh 1250.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 676. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)