生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; densely stellate-pilose; stems elongate, tufted, 40-90 cm long, much branched, yellowish.
• Leaves ovate-lanceolate, ovate-oblong to narrowly ovate, 1-3.5 cm long, 8-12 mm wide, acuminate at apex, cordate or rounded at base, chartaceous, margins entire and ciliate, densely stellate-pilose on both surfaces, especially so beneath, the midrib impressed above, prominently elevated beneath, greenish-yellow above, pale yellow beneath, short petiolate or sessile.
• Flowers several, white, 6-8 mm in diameter, in terminal cymes; cymes slender, 4-6 cm long, stellate-pilose; pedicels 2-3.5 cm long, slender, stellate-hairy; bracts ovate-lanceolate, opposite; sepals lanceolate, 3.5-4 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, acute at apex, densely stellately pilose outside, glabrous inside; petals deeply bifid, lobes lanceolate, shorter or slightly longer than sepals; stamens 10; styles 3, rarely 4.
• Capsules oblong-ovoid, 4-4.5 mm long, 3-valved, valves bifid; seeds globose-reniform, laterally compressed, 1 mm in diameter, rugose-muricate.

分布

• 台灣 : 1,500-2,900 m in the central and southern parts of the island, in exposed fields.
• 世界 : Himalayas from India, mainland China, the Philippines to Java.

引證標本

NANTOU: Tseng-feng, Ying s. n. 1980, Hayata s. n. 1911. CHIAYI: Mt. Morrison, Kawakami & Mori 2258 (lectotype of S. stellato-pilosa), Nagasawa 622.

引用文獻

• YING, SHAO-SHUN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 379. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)