生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Rhizome thick, with densely clustered fibrous roots.
• Leaves radical, glabrous above, slightly pubescent beneath; petiole 30-60 cm long, with a broad sheathing base, pubescent; lamina oblong-lanceolate, 50-90 cm long, 8-15 cm broad, strongly ribbed, plicate.
• Scape densely pubescent, raised entirely above ground; floriferous part deflexed, ovoid or nearly globular, with broadly lanceolate, imbricate, somewhat hairy bracts. Perianth densely villose-woolly; segments ovate, spreading, 10-12 mm long, glabrous inside, separated nearly to ovary or united at base to form a short ring; filaments very short; anthers oblong, erect; styles slender, slightly dilated, minutely 3-lobed at stigmatic end. Berries globose-ellipsoid, ca.5 mm in diam., soft hairy.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets and forests.
• 世界 : India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, Laos, Vietnam to southern China, and through Malesia to tropical Australia and Argentina.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yangmingshan, Yoshida s. n. 17 Jun 1942; Pingchi, Yang 2039. PINGTUNG: Kaoshihfu, Kudo & Suzuki 16015; Nanjenshan, Ohashi et al. 13999. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Huang & Kao 6257; Lutao Is., Kudo & Mori 339. HUALIEN: Antung pass, Yamamoto 344.

引用文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 84. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)