生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub; branches triangular, with densely appressed long silky hairs.
• Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets oblong or obovate, 5–7 cm long, 3–4 cm wide, the apex acute, the base obtuse,with conspicuous parallel veins on both surfaces; petioles 2–3 cm long, deeply canaliculated above; stipules lanceolate, 4–10 mm long, hairy, deciduous.
• Flowers in dense umbels, axillary; peduncles 2–3 mm long; calyx 5.5 mm long, the teeth lanceolate, clothed with dense white silky hairs, each calyx with two bracts at the base; corolla white, 8–12 mm long, twice the length of calyx.
• Pods 1–1.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, slightly curved, constricted on both sutures; 3–6-jointed, length the same as width, densely covered with silky hairs.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, in the margin of thickets or grassland, at elevation of below 1500 m high, in the southern part.
• 世界 : Ceylon, India, the Himalaya to southern China;

引證標本

TAINAN: Wushantou, Huang 2280, 3240; Chotzen, Huang et al. 14622. KAOHSIUNG: Tenchu, Huang & Huang 13899; Chinshuiyen, Huang & Huang 12982. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Huang 1799*.

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: 244. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)