生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Plants 2.0-2.5 m.
• Leaves sessile to subsessile. Blade 50-70 by 5.5-12 cm, oblong to lanceolate, tip acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous on both surfaces except for margin and below midrib; ligule 1.0 cm long, entire or bilobed, coriaceous, outer surface hairy.
• Inflorescence spicate, erect, 20-25 cm long, rachis pale yellowish green, white villose, without bract; Flowers pedicellate, pedicel 0.1-0.2 cm long; bracteole pale white; calyx pale green or pink, tubular, 1.3 cm long, shortly 2-lobed, deeply split unilaterally, outer surface minutely pubescent; corolla white, tube 1.2 cm long, base pink, lobes oblong, outer surface sparsely pubescent, margin ciliate, dorsal lobe 2.5 by 2.0 cm, lateral ones 2.5 by 1.0 cm; labellum white, ovate, convolute, margin crispate, 3.7-4.0 by 3.5-4.0 cm, with red stripes and spots in center, apex emarginate; staminodes absent or minute; anther 1.2-1.6 cm long; filament 1.5 cm long, sparsely hairy; stigma funnel shaped, apex sparsely hairy; style slender, ca. 3 cm long; epigynous glands yellowish brown, columnar, united at one side, 0.3 cm long; ovary pale green, golden yellow villose, 0.4 by 0.3 cm.
• Fruit capsular, red, 1.3 by 1.5 cm, globose, costulate, sparsely hairy. Seeds 15-25, blackish brown, angled, aril white, membranaceous.

分布

• 台灣 : low elevations throughout the island.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Sanhsia, Yang 1878; Kueishan, Yang 2031; Hsiaokotou, Yang 1854; Hsintien, Yang 1891; Yangmingshan, Yang 2007. TAOYUAN: Palin, Yang 1354; TAICHUNG: Kao 9344. NANTOU: Chungliao, Yang 1231; Sunmoon-lake, Moo 2101. CHIAYI: Tapu, Yang 2046; Funchifu, Hayata s. n. Mar. 1910. TAINAN: Chiahsien, Yang 1032. PINGTUNG: Manchu, Yang 1834. ILAN: Shuanglanpei, Yang 2004; Chilan, Yang 1717. HUALIEN: Tienshung, Yang 815.

引用文獻

• WANG, Jenn-Che, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 713. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)