生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Low shrubs, many-branched; branchlets slender, hispid.
• Leaves chartaceous, mostly crowded at tip of branches, elliptic to oblong, 0.7–1.8 cm long, 4–6 mm broad, apex obtuse to apiculate, base acute, margin entire, upper surface green, glabrous, lower surface pale, furfurescent pubescent along midrib and lateral veins, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole 1–2 mm long, pubescent.
• Flowers 2–4(–5) in umbels, terminal; pedicel 3–4 mm long, densely furfurescent pilose; calyx lobes acute, densely pilose; corolla red to dark purple, funnelform, ca. 1.5 cm long, 2.5 cm across; stamens 7–10, unequal, slightly exserted, filaments pubescent on lower part; ovary pubescent, style glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : Northern and central parts, from 1,500 to 2,800 m, in open grasslands with Miscanthus.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Chihchiayangtashan, N. Fukuyama 3006, (Type of R. noriakianum T. Suzuki, TAI), K. Mori s. n. in 1936（Type of R. sikayotaizanense Masamune, TAI）. TAICHUNG : Chika, Lu. s. n. in 1981. NANTOU : Pihlushih, Lu. s. n. in 1981.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 29. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)