生活型

undershrub

形態特徵

• An erect undershrub, up to 60–90 cm high; woody branches cylindrical, glabrous.
• Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets subcoriaceous, the terminal one narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 3–6 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, obtuse at the apex, glabrous above, generally with sparsely silky pubescent hairs beneath, the lateral ones very small, broadly linear or linear oblanceolate; petioles 1–2 cm long; stipules linear, acuminate, 5–10 cm long, deciduous.
• Flowers pink, in axillary and terminal racemes or terminal panicles; pedicels 3–4 mm long, spreading with short hairs; calyx campanulate, the teeth deltoid, shorter than the tube, nearly glabrous; corolla reddish-purple, 6–7 mm long, with deciduous ovate bracts.
• Pods falcate, 3 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, indistinctly jointed, slightly indented and dehiscent along ventral suture.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, in sunny dry place, margin of thickets, roadside and ravines in the central and southern parts at altitudes of 500 to 1,500 m high.
• 世界 : Australia and Asia;

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Tienchu, Huang, Chen & Huang 14388*, Huang, Huang & Wu 14850.

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: 215-219. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)