生活型

shrub-herb

形態特徵

• Undershrubs or perennial herbs to 1.2 m tall; stems subquadrate, sulcate, ca. 8 mm thick, appressed hairy, glabrescent.
• Leaves opposite, often alternate in upper part of stem, widely ovate to orbicular, 5-16 cm long, 2.5-9 cm wide, apex aristate, margins serrate-denticulate, base obtuse to rounded, velutinous and hirsute on both surfaces; petioles 1.5-11.5 cm long, velutinous; stipules linear, ca. 8 mm long, velutinous along veins.
• Inflorescences leafy or usually on leafy branches; bracteoles long triangular; peduncles appressed hairy. Male flowers 4-merous.

分布

• 台灣 : at medium altitudes around Tongpu in Nantou County.
• 世界 : Distributed from India and China to Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.

引證標本

NANTOU: Tongpu, Shih 2983 & Chen s. n. 1995; Renlung Logging Trail, Shih 3441.

參考文獻

• YANG, YUEN-PO, SHIH, BING-LING and LIU, HO-YIH, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 199. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)