生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub; branches angular, pubescent.
• Leaves chartaceous, linear-lanceolate, 7–18 cm long, 1–2.5 cm broad, the apex acuminate or acute, the base acute, the margins entire or denticulate; petioles 4–11 mm long.
• Spikes axillary, erect, slender, 3–11 cm long.
• Capsules globose, about 3–3.5 mm across, tomentose; seeds subovoid, 2 mm long, 1.5 mm broad.

分布

• 台灣 : Southern and eastern parts of the island, abundant on banks and in the dry stream beds.
• 世界 : Indo-Malaysia to southern China and Java.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Suzuki s. n. 1933*; Fukuoka s. n. 1934*. PINGTUNG: Shihmen, Kao 7296; Nanshan, Hsieh 1431.

參考文獻

• HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 482. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)