生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub; branches slender, glabrous, dark purplish.
• Leaves subopposite, ovate to broadly lanceolate, 2.5–5 cm long, 1–2 cm broad, acute to acuminate at apex, obtuse at base, the margins entire, the lateral veins 6–8 on each side of the midrib; petioles 2–3 mm long.
• Flowers reddish purple, in slender racemes 4 cm long, the limb 4-lobed; disc of a linear scale, 2 mm long; ovary obovoid, with stalk, 1-celled with 1 ovule, the stigma ovoid, the style 1 mm long.
• Fruit ovoid.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic, known only from the central, northern and western parts of the island.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wulai, Chang 17364. MAIOLI: Kou & Kao 44.

參考文獻

• CHANG, CHING-EN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 776. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)