生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Twining parasitic herbs forming long tangles, slender, filiform, yellowish-green or yellow to orange-yellow, glabrous.
• Leaves few, reduced to small scales, alternate; internodes very long.
• Inflorescence short spikes, 3-4 cm long, 2-bracteoled, 5-flowered; flowers small, sessile, yellowish-white, 2.5 mm long, ca. 4 mm across; tepals 6, outer 3 triangular-ovate, ca. 2 mm broad, obtuse, inner 3 ovate-oblong, ca. 3 mm across; fertile stamens 9, anthers obcordiform, obtuse at apex, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, anthers introrse, ca. 3 mm long, 3rd whorl of stamens with 2 glands at base of filaments; pistil 1, hairy; ovary ovoid, style short, erect.
• Berry globose, 6 mm across, white, surrounded by the enlarged, persistent, fleshy perianth.

物候

flowering Oct; maturing July to October.

分布

• 台灣 : at low elevations, commonly along seashores, often forming conspicuous masses of tangled, string-like stems.
• 世界 : Pantropical Asia, Africa, Australia, C. & S. China, Ryukyus and Japan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei, Shimada 1933. PINGTUNG: Oluanpi, Hengchun, Liao 11742.

參考文獻

• LlAO, JIH CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 437. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)