生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Erect herb to 2 m tall; stem stout, usually simple, branched above.
• Leaves broadly ovate, palmati- to pinnatifid, with coarsely dentate-lobed segments, glaucous and densely short pubescent beneath, 10-30 cm long.
• Panicles terminal, erect, with small bracts, 20-40 cm long; sepals oblanceolate, light yellow-brown, ca. 9 mm long; stamens many, filaments white, anthers yellowish white.
• Capsules flat, glabrous, obtuse, cuneate, ca. 2 cm long, ca. 5 mm wide, grayish brown.

分布

• 台灣 : Open waste places in lowlands and on foothills in northern Taiwan.
• 世界 : China and Japan.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Chutung, Shimada s. n. 1925.

參考文獻

• LIU, TANG-SHUI and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 722. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)