生活型

herb

形態特徵

• A villose-pubescent herb, mostly 10–15 cm tall.
• Leaflets broadly rhombic-obovate, slightly emarginate at apex, cuneate at base, villose–pubescent on both surfaces, especially along the veins, coarsely sharp-toothed, the veins divaricated from midrib at an angle about 45 degrees, the lateral leaflets smaller, oblique; stipules entire, nearly glabrous on both sides.
• Flowers solitary or in a 2–4-flowered raceme; bracts narrow-oblong, pubescent on both sides; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes elliptic, 5–6.5 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, acuminate and with 2–3 serrations at apex; epicalyx-lobes 5, similar to calyx-lobes in shape; petals 5, white, obovate-orbicular, up to 10–12 mm long, 9–11 mm wide, the apex rounded, the base abruptly contracted.
• Achenes small, inserted on an enlarged, fleshy and globose hypanthium.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets or along roadsides from medium to high altitudes throughout the island.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Luchangtashan, Fukuyama 3409. NANTOU: Nengkaoshan. Suzuki s. n. 1926; Hohuanshan, Sasaki s. n. 1936. CHIAYI: Alishan, Chao & Kao 6185. PINGTUNG: Tawushan, Suzuki 6883. ILAN: Nanhutashan, Yang 1053.

參考文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 79. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)