Waltheria indica

草梧桐

naturalized

Waltheria indica L.

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

數位照片

分布位置

相關資訊

名彙資訊

學名發表文獻

L. 1753. Species Plantarum 2: 673. (Sp. Pl.)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Henry. 1896. A List of Plants from Formosa 82. (List Pl. Formos.)

異名

Waltheria makinoi Hayata

Hayata. 1906. Enumeratio Plantarum Formosanarum 61. (Enum. Pl. Formos.)
Waltheria americana L.

Suzuki. 1936. Short Flora of Formosa 137. (Short Fl. Formos.)

各語言俗名

中

草梧桐、蛇婆子、和他草、倒地麻、滿地毯、仙人灑網
英

Florida waltheria、Uhaloa
日

こばんのき、ひめこばんばのき

參考文獻

Chen. 2006. The Invasive Alien Plant in Miaoli 270. (Invas. Al. Pl. Miaoli)
Wu, Yang, Teng, Chang, Yang and Hsieh. 2010. Taiwania 55(2): 155.
Yang. 1982. A list of plants in Taiwan. (List Pl. Taiwan)
Yeh-Ching Liu, Fu-Yuan Lu & Chern-Hsiung Ou. 1994. Trees of Taiwan revised. (Tr. Taiwan rev. ed.)
Chang-Yang, Su, Chiang & Hsieh. 2022. Taiwania 67(1): 1.

特徵描述

生活型

shrub

形態特徵

Erect shrub, often woody at base, 0.3–1.5 m high; stems more or less terete, densely softly stellate-pubescent towards the ends, older ones glabrous.
Leaves broadly ovate-elliptic, base rounded or shallowly cordate, apex obtuse, more or less plicate, stellately soft-pubescent on both sides, often brown scaly, 1.5–7.5 cm by 1–6 cm; petiole 0.5–3 cm; stipules lanceolate filiform, 4–6 mm long, caducous.
Flower-clusters dense, about 12 mm through out, peduncle ca. 7.5 mm long, with many pilose, lanceolate bracts; bracts 3.5–4 mm long; calyx densely pubescent, 3.5–4 mm long, lobes long-acuminate, shorter than tube; petals light-yellow, 4–5 mm long; stamen 3 mm; ovary 1 mm, style 2.7 mm.
Capsule enclosed by withering calyx, obovoid, pilose at apex, 2–2.5 mm long. Seed shining black, glabrous.

分布

世界 : A widely distributed tropical weed, in dry sunny grassy fields, arable lands, dams, dunes, roadsides.

引證標本

TAOYUAN: Chongli, Kao 10174. TAINAN: Hutoupei, Kao 10341*. KAOHSIUNG: Lingluan, Huang & Huang 12989. PINGTUNG: Hsiaoliuchiu, Huang 8259; Fengkang, Huang & Huang 14085.