生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; stems erect, elongate, 30-65 cm long often woody at base, branched upward, slightly scabrous.
• Leaves linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 2-4 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, acute at apex, attenuate and connate at base, chartaceous, hairy above, glabrous or nearly so beneath, midrib impressed above, elevated beneath.
• Flowers several, rather large, pink, in terminal cymes; bracts opposite, linear, 6-9 mm long, about 1 mm wide; pedicels 2-3 cm long, with viscous-glandular hairs; calyx elongate, cylindric, 2.5-3 cm long, 2-4 mm across, glabrous, 9-10-nerved, lobes ovate-triangular, 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse, margins ciliate; petals limb oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 8-12 mm wide, bifid at apex, the lobes linear or lanceolate, 7-8 mm long, lacerated; claw elongate, 1.5-2 cm long, glabrous; coronal scales 2, rectangular, 4-5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, with an elongate tail at apex; stamens 10; styles 3, slender, hairy at base.
• Capsules oblong, 1-1.5 cm long, 3-9 mm across, dehiscing by terminal teeth; seeds minute, many, reniform, papillate.

分布

• 台灣 : 200-1,300 m, throughout the island, in exposed fields and roadsides.
• 世界 : China.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Shimada 1199. TAICHUNG: Wu-lin, Ying s. n. 1978. TAITUNG: Kuanshan, Yamamoto & Mori 37. HUALIEN: Hosokawa 5121.

參考文獻

• YING, SHAO-SHUN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 364. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)