生活型

herb

形態特徵

• A fleshy herb, glabrous, creeping and decumbent below, suberect upward, 6–12 cm high, with sterile branches, the Leaves of sterile branches rosulate.
• Leaves alternate, long-spathulate, 10–25 mm long, 4–6 mm broad, obtuse or nearly so at apex, attenuate-petiolate at base, entire.
• Flowers in cymes, sessile; sepals 5, unequal in length, spathulate or linear-oblanceolate, 2.8–4 mm long, 0.9 mm broad, obtuse at apex, narrowly truncate at base, glabrous, greenish; petals 5, linear-lanceolate, yellow; stamens 10; anthers yellow, oblong, 0.7 mm long, 0.5 mm broad, obtuse at apex, subcordate at base; glands 5, opposite with carpels; carpels 5, connate at base, free upward, rosulate at apex, stellate-spreading later.
• Follicles 5, coriaceous, 5 mm long; seeds many, oblong, 0.6 mm long, 0.3 mm broad; testa yellow; embryo oblong, 0.4 mm long, dull-white or yellowish.

物候

Flowering and fruiting periods from April to June.

分布

• 台灣 : On mountain at altitudes at altitudes from 200 to 1500 m.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shiting, Chung 267; Pingshi, Tang 1797*.

參考文獻

• TANG, WEI-SHIN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 31. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)