生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, branches often ascending, young branches slender, densely appressed gray to brown strigose.
• Leaves mostly crowded at tip of branches, chartaceous, polymorphic, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 1–4 cm long, 0.5–1.7 cm broad, apex acute, often mucronulate, base, acute, margin entire, slightly recurved, upper surface dark green, scabrid or gray of brown strigose especially along midrib and veins, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole ca. 1 cm long, appressed strigose.
• Corolla pink, spotted with rose, widely funnelform, 2.5–3 cm across, lobes spreading; stamens 9 or 10, unequal, filaments villous on lower half; ovary and basal part of style grayish pubescent.
• Capsules ovoid-conical, 8–10 mm long, ca. 3–4 mm across, densely brown strigose, style persistent.

分布

• 台灣 : common on sunny mountain slopes of the central range, at 1,000–3,300 m.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Sasaki s. n. in 1922. NANTOU: Luantashan, Kawakami ＆ Mori s. n. in 1908. CENTRAL RANGES: Mori s. n. in 1909 (Type of R. caryophyllum Hayata). CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Price 97; Mt. Yushan, Nakahara s. n. in 1906. TAINAN: Suzuki 19359.

參考文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 32. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)