生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial, green or purple, more or less arachnose pubescent. Roots fibrous, thickened, 2-3 mm across. Stems dimorphic: vegetative shoot a rosette; flowering shoots 1-several, erect or ascending; longer stems somewhat decumbent basally, unbranched or sparsely branched.
• Rosette leaves lorate, 8-15 by 1-2 cm, apex acute, subglabrous to arachnoid pubescent on both surfaces; cauline leaves shorter, 3-7 by 0.7-1 cm. Sheath cylindrical, 0.5-1.5 cm long, densely arachnose.
• Inflorescence terminal, a cincinnus enclosed in biseriate bracteoles, subtended by spathe-like bracts, 1-7 flowering branches from leaf axils; bract lorate-lanceolate, 1.2-3.7 by 0.4-0.7 cm, upper surface nearly glabrous, arachnoid pubescent beneath, margin ciliate; bracteoles drepanoid, ca. 0.6-1 by 0.15-0.3 cm. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic; sepals 3, fused at base, lanceolate, 4-6 by 1.3-2.2 mm, apex acuminate, hispid, base villous; petals 3, pink purple, 6.7-8.4 by 3-4.3 mm, apex acute; anthers yellow, trapezoidal, ca. 1 mm long; filament ca. 1 cm long; ovary ca. 2 by 1-1.5 mm, apex hispid; style ca. 8 mm long, barbate, hairs moniliform, purple.
• Capsules ca. 3 by 2 mm, apex mucronulate, hispid. Seeds 2 per locule, ca. 2 by 1 mm, rugose, scrobiculate.

分布

• 台灣 : in the center and south, often on rocky outcrops at forest margins, from 200-2,300 m.
• 世界 : Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and southern China.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Chingshan, Chen 858; Mt. Pahsienshan, Huang et al. 2768. NANTOU: Chingjing Farm, Peng 6119; Lushan, Peng & Yen 11295; NCHU Hui-Sun Experimental forest, Kuoh 4195; Tungpu to Loloku, Huang et al. 5243. CHIAYI: on route from Chiayi City to Alishan, Peng et al. 14324; Kotaipo, Sasaki s. n. Oct 1917. KAOHSIUNG: Paolai, Lu & Sang 704; Shanping, Wang et al. 9675; Shihshan Forest Road, Wang et al. 10392. PINGTUNG: along Tahan Forest Trail from Shuitiliao to Tahanshan, Leu et al 552; on route from Wutai to Ali, Peng 10212. HUALIEN: Hungyeh Hot Spring, s. coll. s. n. 3 Jul 1988. TAITUNG: Chipon-goe, Sasaki s. n. 13 Oct 1934.

引用文獻

• WANG, Jenn-Che, CHEN, Yo-Jiun, and PENG, Ching-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 165. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)