生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Clumped perennial herb, spreading by numerous thin, scaly soboles; stems 5–20 (–30) cm tall, branching from base or rarely above, ascending or decumbent, strigillose, sometimes with broad lines of hairs on internodes.
• Leaves (0.5-) 1–2 cm long, 0.15-0.7 cm wide, elliptic or oblong to lanceolate, often narrowly so, denticulate, on petioles 0–3 mm long.
• Flowers suberect; floral tube 0.6–1.1 mm long; sepals 2–3.5 mm long; petals 3.5–6.5 mm long, white, often turning pink or rose; stigma subcapitate to broadly clavate.
• Capsules 26–55 mm long, glabrescent to sparsely strigillose, on pedicels 9–22 mm long. Seeds 1–1.3 mm long, the surface papillose; coma white, rather persistent

物候

Flowers late Jul-Sep; fruit Aug-early Nov.

分布

• 台灣 : Distribution: Endemic to Taiwan. Occurs on loose scree or gravel in open moist places or rarely in shaded places in the mountains; 2,650–3,600 m.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Hsu 5998, Peng 5796. TAICHUNG: Hsuehshan, Peng 7984; Mt. Nenggao, Bartlett 6214. NANTOU: Hohuanshan, Peng 8297. CHIAYI: Tatachia, Peng 9009; Yushan, Suzuki s. n. 1924. KAOHSIUNG: Tienchih, Huang & Yang 1845. HUALIEN: Hohuanshan, Kao 7802; Konankuan, Chuang & Kao 4257.

參考文獻

• RAVEN, PETER H. and PENG, CHING-I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 946-948. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)