生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Loosely matted alpine perennial herb with fleshy scaly soboles below ground; stems 3–18 cm long, often branched, strigillose, sometimes mixed with glandular hairs.
• Leaves crowded, 0.8–2.1 cm long, 0.5–1.2 cm wide, broadly elliptic to obovate or ovate, subcoriaceous and rather fleshy, weakly denticulate, on petioles 1–3 mm long.
• Flowers in suberect raceme, slightly nodding in bud; floral tube 1.2–2.8 mm long; sepals 11–17 mm long; petals 16–33 mm long, rose-purple; stigma subglobose with four shallow but evident lobes.
• Capsules 20–45 mm long, sparsely strigillose and glandular-pubescent, on pedicels 4–7 mm long. Seeds 1.6–1.8 mm long, the surface finely reticulate; coma tawny, persistent.
• 2n=36.

物候

Flowers Jul-Aug; fruit Aug-Sep.

分布

• 台灣 : Distribution: Endemic in Taiwan. Occurs on open scree slopes in the high mountains, 2,600–3,750 m.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Hsu 5983, Peng 5743. TAICHUNG: Hsuehshan, Sasaki s. n.1932; Mt. Maborasu, Shikano s. n. 1931. HUALIEN: Kuarenkotyo, Suzuki & Fukuyama s. n. 1936; Chuochenshan, Shikano s. n. 1929.

參考文獻

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