生活型

herb

形態特徵

• An ascending or prostrate herb, with slender spreading branches, clothed with hooked-hairs.
• Leaves trifoliolate, the terminal leaflet 1.5–3.5 cm long, 0.7–3 cm wide, elliptic, oblong-elliptic to ovate-oblong, lateral ones smaller, with hairs on both surfaces, petioles 1.5–3 cm long, with minute hooked-hairs; stipules leafly, 1–2 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, persistent.
• Pseudoracemes terminal and axillary, slender; flowers solitary or in pairs; calyx 4-lobed, acuminate at the apex, pubescent; corolla 4 mm long, pink.
• Pods slender, 2–5 cm long, less than 2 mm wide, 3–8-jointed, the length of segments 3–4 times longer than the width, finely constricted between the joints, each joint with hooked-hairs.

分布

• 台灣 : In the wasteland, roadside, at elevation below 700 m high, in the central and southern part.
• 世界 : Native to tropical America.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Kukuan, Huang & Huang 13335. CHANGHUA: Tienchung, Huang 1981*. TAINAN: Yushan, Huang 13967; Nanhua, Huang 3299. KAOHSIUNG: Chishan, Huang 2449; Yesuche, Huang 13286. PINGTUNG: Ssuchungchi, Ohashi et al. 13630; Laofoshan, Huang 2394. TAITUNG: Taitung, Tateishi et al. 15008; Lanyu, Tateishi et al. 15406.

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: 265. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)