生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Erect subshrubs, 1–2 m tall; branches puberulous, stout, glandular, canaliculate.
• Leaves membranaceous, with brown glandular dots, broadly ovate to suborbicular-ovate, 12–22 cm long, 11–23 cm wide, acute at apex, deeply cordate at base, multinerved, puberulous on nerves on both surfaces; petioles 7–12 cm long, puberulous.
• Spikes erect, 7–12 cm long, 3–7 together, umbellate, axillary. Flowers bisexual; bracts peltate, triangular, margins ciliate; stamens 2; stigmas 3.
• Fruit free, obovoid, 3-sided, apex truncate.

分布

• 台灣 : in the southern part, lowlands and hillsides.
• 世界 : Tropical Africa, India, Ceylon and Asia.

引證標本

CHIAYI: Pinlin, Kao 10352. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Yang 1787. TAITUNG: Chihpen, Lu 18386.

參考文獻

• LIN, TZER-TONG and LU, SHENG-YOU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 631. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)