生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A small shrub.
• Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets rounded or ovate, 2.5–5 cm long, rounded, obtuse or slightly emarginate at the apex, the lower surfaces clothed with dense hairs; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 4–5 mm long.
• Flowers dense, in terminal pseudoracemes, cylindrical, 3–5cm long; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 6–8 mm long, deciduous, each bract contains 2 flowers; pedicels 4 mm long, densely pubescent; calyx campanulate, 7 mm long, the lobes 3 long, 2 short; corolla 5–6 mm long.
• Pods 2-jointed, the joints ovate, with reticulations.

分布

• 台灣 : In open wasteland, grassland, roadside, at elevation below 1,000 m high, in the central and southern part.
• 世界 : India, the Philippines, China and Australia;

引證標本

TAINAN: Wushantou, Huang 3234. KAOHSIUNG: Hsiaolin, Huang 3315; Kanshantou, Huang 13282. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Huang 3331, Huang & Huang 13510. HUALIEN: Hsincheng, Huang 1982.

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