生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; stems erect, 6–20 cm tall, decumbent and rooting at base, puberulous, angular-sulcate.
• Leaves succulent, 3- or 4-whorled, elliptic, obovate to orbicular, 6–15 mm long, 4–9 mm wide, rounded to obtuse at apex, acute at base, entire, nearly glabrous, inconspicuously 3-nerved; petioles 2 mm long, puberulous.
• Spikes erect, solitary, terminal, fleshy, 0.5–4 cm long; rachis puberulous; peduncles 0.5–1 cm long, puberulous; ovaries deeply immersed in pits.
• Fruit ovoid, 1 mm long, 0.5 mm in diameter, glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : in forests at medium altitudes.
• 世界 : Asia, Australia, Africa and tropicalAmerica.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Luchangtashan, Kawakami & Mori s. n. 1908. TAICHUNG: Pahsienshan, Sasaki s. n. 1922. PINGTUNG: Wutaishan, Yang 26633.

參考文獻

• LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU. 1996. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 625. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)