生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; stems branched, prostrate and creeping, to 1 m long or more, pubescent.
• Leaves opposite, rhomboid, obovate, oblong, 2–8 cm long, acute or obtuse at apex, gradually narrowed from middle to base, densely pubescent on both surfaces.
• Spikes terminal and axillary, slender, 5–20 cm long; flowers numerous, ovoid, ca. 3 mm long; bracts ovate, ca. 1.2 mm long, acuminate, sparsely pubescent; perianth segments 5, oblong, ca. 3 mm long, acuminate, outer surface densely white hairy, inner surface glabrous; stamens 5, staminodes 2-fid.
• Utricles small, ovoid, ca. 1 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : on forest floors and in thickets in southern Taiwan and Lanyu Is. (Botel Tobago).
• 世界 : The Philippines, Malaysia, southern China, the Pacific islands and other warm regions of the Old World.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Shanping, Huang 4955. PINGTUNG: Maopitou, Kao 4722; Kenting, Chuang 2393. TAITUNG: Is. Lanyu, Huang & Kao 6352; Anshue, Simozawa s. n. 1938.

參考文獻

• LIU, TANG-SHUI and KAO, MUH-TSUEN. 1996. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 388. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)