生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; rhizome horizontal to ascending, often elongate; stem up to 25 cm, ascending, rooting at ends and producing dense rosettes of leaves and flowers.
• Leaves 2–4 cm long, 1.5–4 cm broad, cordate, cordate to deeply cordate at base, short acuminate or acute at apex, depressed crenate-serrate on margin, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on the upper surface, pale beneath, chartaceous; petioles 3–10 cm long, glabrous; stipules ca. 10 mm long, 1–2 mm broad, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate at apex, fimbriate-laciniate on margin, glabrous, fuscous, free.
• Flowers 10–16 mm across, pale violet to almost white, with dark violet veins on the basal petal, yellowish green at base of every petal; peduncles 3–10 cm long, slender, equalling leaves; sepals 3–6 mm long, 1–1.2 mm broad, narrowly lanceolate, acute at apex, entire, glabrous; appendages 1–2 mm long, dentate, glabrous; petals obovate, basal one shorter or equalling to the others, rounded or obtuse at apex, lateral ones bearded, spurs 2–2.5 mm long, exceeding calycine appendages, cylindrical, obtuse; styles 1.6–2 mm long, gently geniculate at base, somewhat thickened distally, minutely papillose at apex with anterior stigmatic openning.
• Capsules 4–6 mm long, globose, glabrous, peduncle prostrate when mature. Seeds ovoid, ca. 1.8 mm long, with conspicuous elaisome.
• Chromosome number n=10.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic.

引證標本

TAOYUAN: Ssuling-Paling, Wang 3528. HSINCHU: Mt. Yura, Y. Simada 2390c (Type of V. shinchikuensis, TAI!); Tikuto, Mentoyu, Y. Simada 2391c (Type of V. shinchikuensis, TAI!). TAICHUNG: Wuling Farm, Wang 3894a. NANTOU: Tsuifeng, Wang 5100. CHIAYI: Tozan, Ishizaki s. n. 1924 (TAI, p. p.). PINGTUNG: Ali, Wang 3449.

參考文獻

• WANG, JENN-CHE and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 830. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)