生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Small shrub; branchlets puberulous when young.
• Leaves subsessile, chartaceous or coriaceous, usually elliptic or obovate, 0.5–2.5 cm long, apex usually acute, sometimes obtuse or rounded, with mucronate, base acute or cuneate, aristate-serrulate above middle, glabrous or hirtellous along midrib above, usually punctate and glabrous beneath.
• Flowers several in axillary fascicles, 4-merous; pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm long, puberulous or occasionally glabrous; sepals free or shortly united, lobes usually narrowly oblong, red-punctate, usually ciliate; petals twice as long as sepals, united ca. 1/2 their length, lobes usually long triangular or sometimes narrowly oblong, red-punctate, ciliate; stamens longer than petals.
• Fruit globose, ca. 5 mm across.
• his species needs further study because plants from Taiwan appear to be morphologically from those in Africa and elsewhere in Asia distinction.

分布

• 台灣 : in the center and east.
• 世界 : The Azores, Africa, Afghanistan, NW India, Kashmir, Nepal, and China.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Wuling farm, Lu 15645 (male).

參考文獻

• YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 53. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)