生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annual herbs to 2.5 m tall; stems erect, stout, much branched, branches ascending, farinose when young.
• Leaves with petiole 3-5 cm long, reddish when young, ovate to trullate, 6-12 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, acute to obtuse at apex, truncate to obtuse at base, coarsely dentate.
• Inflorescence a terminal leafy panicle, 8-25 cm long, drooping; tepals 5, obovate, ca. 1 mm long, ridged on central green band.
• Utricles depressed-globose, smooth; seeds oriented horizontally, lustrous, black,

分布

• 台灣 : probably just a form of the widely cultivated <i>C. giganteum</i> D. Don.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Tewen, Kao 10000. TAITUNG: Chinlongshiang, Chen 4330; Tamaoli, Chen s. n.

引用文獻

• LIU, HO-YIH, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 385. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)