生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Acaulescent herbs usually with long slender stolons. Roots slender, usually to 1(-1.5) mm across, with small fusiform or ellipsoidal tubers.
• Leaves many, basal, tufted, linear, margins serrulate, 3-5-nerved, 10-45 cm long, 1.5-5 mm wide, chartaceous. Peduncle slender, occasionally serrulate on edges apically, 9-35 cm long, 0.7-2.2 mm wide. Flowering portion of raceme per bract segments 1.5-5 cm long. Pedicel (including basal part of perianth) 1.7-5.5 mm long, variable in articulation site. Bracts lanceolate to subulate, scarious, margins usually serrulate apically, to ca.1.5 cm long.
• Flowers 1 or 2, fragrant; perianth white, sometimes purplish; lobes oblong to lanceolate, 2.5-5.5(-6.5) mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide. Anthers lanceolate, greenish, 1.5-3.3 mm long; filaments to ca. 0.5 mm long. Style slender, filiform-subulate, 2.5-5.2 mm long; ovary inferior; ovules 2 per locule.
• Seeds ellipsoid, 6-7 mm long, 4-6 mm across, blue.

物候

Flowering May to August.

分布

• 台灣 : in forests at medium to high elevations.
• 世界 : Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), the Philippines and China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Rarashan, Sasaki s. n. 1918; Chihsingshan, Tanaka s. n. 1987. ILAN: Taipinshan, Fukuyama 4188; Nanhutashan, Shimada 1341. HSINCHU: Taiko-gun (Tahu), Fukuyama 4186. NANTOU: Niitaka-yama (Yushan), Sasaki s. n. 1926; Tentsu to Yinhai, Kao 5837*. CHIAYI: Arisan, Faurie 1183 (Type of Mondo scabrum Ohwi, KYO!); Fukuyama 4187. KAOHSIUNG: Takuanshan, Okamoto s. n. 1937. PINGTUNG: Peitawushan, Namba et al. 943. TAITUNG: Kuei-hu, Hsu 3365. HUALIEN: Noko-goe, Ohwi 3013 (Type of Mondo formosanum Ohwi, KYO!); Sakanobe, Sasaki s. n. 1929.

引用文獻

• YING, Shao-Shun, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 54. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)