生活型

herb

形態特徵

• A prostrate herb, with slender filiform branches, 30 cm long or more, glabrous.
• Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets crowded, small, oblong or elliptic, 5–10 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, obtuse, mucronate at the apex, the upper surface glabrous, the lower surface slightly clothed with appressed hairs; petioles slender, 5–10 mm long; stipules 3–5 mm long, linear lanceolate.
• Flowers very small, pink, 3–6 loosely arranged on a long filiform hairy peducle forming short lateral pseudoracemes; calyx 3 mm long, densely pubescent, the lobes acuminate.
• Pods glabrous, 2 cm long, 2 mm wide, 3–5-jointed, the joints much longer than broad, the upper suture straight, the lower suture a little constricted.

分布

• 台灣 : In grassland, rocky slope and roadside, at elevation between 700 and 2000 m high, in the central and southern mountain area.
• 世界 : Asia;

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Kukuan, Huang 10051*; Chingching Farm, Ohashi et al. 12436. CHIAYI: Fushan, Huang 3272. KAOHSIUNG: Tengchu, Ohashi et al. 12775.

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: 262-265. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)