生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; rhizome erect to ascending, rather thin, with procumbent rooting stem at apex. Stem up to 38 cm, rooting at ends and producing dense rosettes of leaves and flowers.
• Leaves 1–4 cm long, 1–3 cm broad, suborbicular to ovate or elliptic, cuneate to shallowly cordate at base, subacute to rounded or obtuse at apex, crenate to serrate-crenate on margin, long decurrent on petiole, hirsute or rarely glabrous, herbaceous; petioles 1–7 cm long; stipules 5–9 mm long, 1–1.5 mm broad, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, dentate to ciliate on margin, free.
• Flowers 7–13 mm across, pale violet to almost white; peduncles 1.5–7 cm long, exceeding leaves; sepals 3–6 mm long, 1–1.5 mm broad, lanceolate, acute at apex, sparsely pubescent, fimbrio-ciliate on margin, green; appendages up to 0.5 mm long, rounded, fimbrio-ciliate; petals obovate, the basal shortest, acute at apex, lateral ones bearded; spurs 0.5–1 mm long, obtuse; styles ca. 1.2 mm long, geniculate at base, clavate distally, with two lateral lobes at apex and anterior stigmatic beak.
• Capsules 4–6 mm long, ellipsoid, glabrous. Seeds ovoid, ca. 0.8 mm long.
• Chromosome number n=13.

分布

• 世界 : Himalayas, India, China, Indochina, South Japan, the Ryukyus, the Philippines and New Guinea.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Chishingshan, Ying 773; Urai, Wang 3585. TAOYUAN: Paling-Tamanshan, Yang 1282. HSINCHU: Wutzushan, Kawakami 5990. MIAOLI: Tahu, Simada 4003. TAICHUNG: Chingshan, Wang 5058. CHANGHUA: Yuanlin, Kawakami s. n. 1907. NANTOU: Kwantaoshi, Wang 4199. CHIAYI: Alishan, Hsu & Kuoh 6858. KAOHSIUNG: Weiliaoshan, Yamada 28. PINGTUNG: Wutai, Chen 1559. TAITUNG: Litao, Wang 4269; Lanyu, Kawakami & Sasaki s. n. 1911. HUALIEN: Mukuashan, Nakamura 4432.

參考文獻

• WANG, JENN-CHE and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 816-819. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)