生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Small herbs, holomycotrophic, achlorophyllous, pubescent. Rhizome creeping, branched, fleshy, terete, to 1mm diam., whitish when young, pale brownish when old.
• Leaves whitish, alternate, 6-7 per stem, scale-like, lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, apex obtuse to acute; largest leaves just below flower, smallest leaves at base of stem.
• Flowers solitary, sometimes several clustered on rhizome, subsessile or pedicel to 5 mm long, floral tube white, tepals 6, fused to form a basal perianth tube, 3 mm wide at base, 6-8 mm wide at apex; inner tepals 3, larger than outer tepals, pale orange or yellow, 7-8 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, arching inward distally and connate at apex to resemble a miter (bishop’s hat), apex obtuse, dorsal keel ending in a 1 mm long, erect, finger-like appendage; outer tepal 3, pale-orange to yellow, 3 mm long, 1 mm wide, apex acuminate. Stamens 6, adnate, forming a tube around the style, pendulous from the annulus, annulus dark orange or red, connective orange or yellow, dilated and adnate along mediolateral margins to form a tube; connectives broad ovate, apex with glandular hairs and appendages; thecae attached at base of connective, separate, each one ca. 0.8 mm long, 0.5 mm wide; stigma 3-lobed, with a long hair on each lobe.
• Fruit capsules, fleshy, cup-shaped, 3-4 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, elongated at fruiting stage. Seed narrowly oblong, slightly twisted.

物候

Flowering May; Fruiting September.

分布

• 台灣 : Known only from the type locality in Sumakusu, Hsinchu County, Taiwan

引證標本

Hsinchu Hsien: Chienshih Hsiang, Sumakusu, ca. 1500 m, P. Y. Chiang 0801 (TAI). Fruit.

參考文獻

• Po-Yi Chiang and Tsung-Hsin Hsieh, Taiwania 56(2): 138-142. 2011.