生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Suffruticose herbs to 20 cm tall.
• Leaves alternate or subopposite, long-petiolate, ovate-rounded to ovate-rhomboid, 2–3 cm long, 2–2.5 cm broad, apex rounded, obtuse or emarginate, base rounded, truncate to subacute, margins crenulate-serrulate, midrib raised, veins impressed above; petiole 5–6 cm long, complanate. Racemes 10–25 cm long; scales narrowed.
• Flowers 1.5 cm across; pedicel 7–8 mm long, bracteate; bracts narrowly oblong, 8 mm long, 3 mm wide, acute; calyx segments ovate, 2.5 mm long, 2 mm broad, obtuse or acute; petals rounded-oblong, 6–7 mm long, 5–6 mm wide, margins obscurely denticulate; filaments 6–7 mm long, the base recurved; ovary 3 mm across.
• Capsules depressed-globose, 5 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : in high mountains from 2,300 to 3,200 m.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Shengkuang to Ssuyuan, Yang et al. 8425; Shenmajennshan, Ou et al 7010; Hsuehshan, Chiu 2364. NANTOU: Patungkuan to Tungpu, Leu s. n. 1989.

參考文獻

• HSU, Tsai-Wen, KUOH, Chang-Sheng and HSIEH, Chang-Fu, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 15. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)