生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Subterranean stem subglobose to globose.
• Petioles to 25 cm long; blade reniform-hastate 7-11 cm long, usually as long as broad, lateral lobes obtuse at apex.
• Inflorescence developed with leaves before or at the same time. Staminate flower zone 0.7-1.0 cm long. Pistillate flowering zone ca. 0.4-0.6 cm long, as long as sterile flower zone. Sterile flowers filiform, spreading and slightly decurved, yellow, weakly papillose; appendage as long as spathe, included, cylindrical, brownish-purple.

分布

• 台灣 : on grassland at low elevation in the southern part.
• 世界 : Malesian region to southern India and Sri Lanka. Introduced into northeast India, Luzon, east Africa, eastern Malesia, and neotropics (Brazil).

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Kenting Park, Huang & Hsiao 17387*.

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 693. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)