生活型

herb

形態特徵

• An erect herb, 20–100cm high, covered with appressed hairs.
• Leaves linear or lanceolate, 4–10 cm long, 0.5–1 cm wide, acute at both ends; stipules minute, setaceous.
• Racemes terminal or axillary, 2–20-flowered; bracts linear; bracteoles at the upper end of pedicel; calyx 10–15mm long, densely clothed with brownish yellow hairs; corolla purplish-blue, as long as the calyx.
• Pods glabrous, sessile, as long as the calyx, 10–15-seeded.(fruit長寬seed徑=20:7:2)

分布

• 台灣 : In open seaside, grassland, at elevation below 1,000 m high, spreading the island.
• 世界 : India, Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Lienhuachu, Huang 14522*, Nemoto & Hoshi 25107.

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: 232-236. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)