生活型

herb

形態特徵

• An annual herb, 15–20 cm high, with many slender branches, clothed with silvery hairs.
• Leaves simple, linear, acute, both surfaces more or less densely clothed with white pubescence; stipules minutely setaceous.
• Racemes shorter than the leaves, 5–8 mm long; flowers red, 3.5 mm long.
• Pods small, round, 2 mm in diameter, covered with silvery hairs.(量fruit2.38mm.seed2.13*1.75mm)

分布

• 台灣 : in the open place, including wasteland, roadside, river bank, at elevation below 300 m high, in the central and southern parts, including Hsiaoliuchiu.
• 世界 : India, Ceylon, Malaysia, the Philippines, China and Australia;

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Chinshuiyen, Huang & Huang 12973*. PINGTUNG: Tungchiang, Huang 149.

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