生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial decumbent to ascending herbs. Stems to 60 cm long, much-branched, red or green, glabrous, often rooting at nodes.
• Leaves terete or flattened, sparingly pubescent with bladder-like hairs, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1-6 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, apex acute to rounded, gradually tapering to dilated clasping base.
• Pedicel 0.6-1.5 cm long; tepals greenish outside, white to violet inside, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 4-10 mm long, with a dorsal subapical green appendage ca. 1.5 mm long; stamens many, with reddish filaments; ovary 3-4 celled, styles 3.
• Capsule ovoid to oblong, 4-11 mm long; seeds 10-30 per capsule, lustrous, black.

分布

• 台灣 : a common weed along seashores.
• 世界 : Pantropical.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Miaoli, Kao 7398. CHANGHUA: Fwnbao, Guo 55. YUNLIN: Ssuhu, Tang 710; Taishi, Yang 517. TAINAN: Nankunshin, Kao 10478; Szukunshen, Wang 879*. KAOHSIUNG: Chiating, Yang 2032.

參考文獻

• LIU, HO-YIH. 1996. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 329. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)