生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub, up to 3 m high; branches cylindrical, glabrous.
• Leaves trifoliolate, the terminal leaflets 2–3 cm long, less than 2 cm wide, obovate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base, pubescent, the lateral ones smaller; petioles 5–6 mm long, pubescent; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm long, deciduous.
• Flowers 2–6, in loose umbelliform racemes, axillary; peduncles 5–10 mm long; calyx 5–6 mm long, 4-lobed with two bracts at the base, pubescent; corolla white, 1 cm long, the two keels united.
• Pods 1.5–2 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, with one or two joints, pubescent.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic, in the margin of thicket, roadside, at elevation of below 500 m high, in the southern part of Taiwan.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Fengkan, Huang & Huang 14045. PINGTUNG: Suchunchi, Huang k093*, Tachien-shan, Huang & Huang 13773.

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: 242-244. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)