生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial, glabrous herbs; fragrant when dry; stolons short; stems usually tufted, 4-angled, erect, 30–60 cm long, branches many in upper part.
• Leaves alternate, membranaceous, ovate-elliptic, 1–8 cm long, 6–25 mm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base attenuate, margins entire or slightly undulate; petiole 5–10 mm long.
• Flowers yellow, axillary; pedicel 1.5–3.5 cm long; calyx cleft nearly to base, lobes ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, 3–4 mm long; corolla rotate, 5-lobed, lobes acute, 4 mm long; ovary glabrous.
• Capsules globose, 3–5 mm in diam., longitudinally dehiscent, green turning brownish, style persistent; seeds many, brown to black.

分布

• 台灣 : throughout at low to mid elevations.
• 世界 : Southern China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shihting, Peng 8555; Wulai, Peng 8375. ILAN: Tashi, Chiaoliaoshan, Leu 2210. TAOYUAN: Lalashan, Huang, 2409; Fusing, Kuo11055. HSINCHU: Wufeng, Peng 9357. MIAOLI: Tang 570. TAICHUNG: Sonlin, Sasaki s. n. 1930; Huehshan, Masamune 1257. NANTOU: Hoshe, Shimizu 10983, Huang 4063. CHIAYI: Furshan, Wang 6273; Wenshusi, Kao 7637. TAINAN: Kwantsulin, Huang 995. PINGTUNG: Tewn, Kao 10007. TAITUNG: Haituan, Hsiao 1270. HUALIEN: Fengping, Leu 1478; Taroko Natl. Park, Ho 1210.

參考文獻

• KAO, Muh-Tsuen and PENG, Ching -I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 63. 1989.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)