生活型

herb

形態特徵

• A procumbent or prostrate herb; stem slender, covered with short whitish hairs.
• Leaves simple, deltoid-cordate, 2–3 cm long, 2–2.5 cm wide, obtuse at the apex, green and sparingly pubescent above, densely whitish hairy beneath; petioles slender, 1–2 cm long; stipules lanceolate, 4–5 mm long.
• Pseudoracemes terminal, slender. Flowers solitary or 2 in a cluster, small, reddish-purple in color, loosely arranged on the floral axis; pedicels about 4 mm long.
• Pods linear, 2–3 cm long, 2 mm wide, constricted between the joints on both sutures, and with minute hooked-hairs, 3–5-jointed, the segments oblong.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic, under secondary forest or margin of thicket; in more or less wet and semi-shaded place, at elevation below 300 m high, in the southern part.

引證標本

TAINAN: Wushantou, Huang 3241, 3254; Hanhua, Huang 3306. PINGTUNG: Tachienshan, Ohashi et al. 14719.

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: 253. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)