生活型

herb

形態特徵

• A glabrous reddish annual herb, 3–10 cm high; stems creeping and branching at base.
• Leaves 3–4-verticillate, subsessile, narrowly lanceolate or linear, 5–8 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, acute at both ends, the margins entire.
• Flowers solitary in axils, sessile, reddish, usually 5-merous; stamens 2 or 3.
• Capsules globose, about as long as the calyx.

分布

• 台灣 : In paddy fields and wet place.
• 世界 : The Pantropics (Africa, Asia, Australia, and America), and warm temperate regions of the world.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Sengari Tyosuichi fukin Isikawa s. n. 1930; Sintiku, Shimada s. n. 1934. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Huang 7918.

參考文獻

• HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 881. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)