生活型

vine

形態特徵

• A perennial scandent vine.
• Leaves trifoliolate; terminal leaflets elliptic or oblong, shortly acuminate, 5–6 cm long, 3–3.5 cm wide, glabrous on the both surfaces; petiole 3–4 cm long; stipellate.
• Flowers pink, 1.5–2 cm long, 3–5 in axillary racemes; bracts large, broadly ovate 6 mm long; calyx campanulate, 5-cleft, outer surface of standard densely covered with silky-tomentose hairs.
• Pods linear, 4–7 cm long, 5 mm wide, flat, glabrous, dehiscent, long acuminate, ridged along both sutures; seeds 7–15.(seed長寬=5:3)

分布

• 台灣 : Escaped from cultivation and naturalized in open roadside, waste area and river bed, up to 1,000 m high in elevation.
• 世界 : Native of South America.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Kukuan, Huang & Huang 10063. CHANGHUA: Tienchung, Huang 290. TAINAN: Tatiku, Huang 3296. KAOSHIUNG: Paolai, Huang 10482*; Sun Valley, Huang 14472. PINGTUNG: Ssuchungchi, Ohashi et al. 13628; Chialoshui, Huang 14543. TAITUNG: Chihpen, Tateishi et al. 15462.

參考文獻

• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Taiwania 32(1): 11-118. 1987.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 211. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)