生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Climbing undershrubs, much branched, branches cylindric, densely tomentose.
• Leaves pedicellate, opposite, ovate, 1–3 cm long, 0.7–1.5 cm wide, obtuse or acute at apex, tomentose to glabrous at both ends.
• Inflorescence a terminal spike, cylindric, 1–4 cm long; perianth segments 4 or 5, white, thin, lanceolate-acuminate, 2–3 mm long, with silky hairs at base; stamens 4 or 5, connate at base; stigma capitate, very short.
• Utricles circumscissile;seeds reniform, black, shining, ca. 1 mm long and as wide.

分布

• 台灣 : Mainly in waste places in the southern part of Taiwan.
• 世界 : Africa, Java, Malaysia, southern and southwestern China and the Philippines.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Subon, Matuda 789; Kuraru, Hayata & Sasaki 9177.

參考文獻

• LIU, TANG-SHUI and KAO, MUH-TSUEN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 393. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)