生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annual herbs; stolons short; stems erect, angular, 15–80 cm tall, sparsely branched in upper parts, with minute glandular hairs.
• Leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 5–10 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base attenuate or acuminate, entire, green, lower surface paler, with minute dark brown spots.
• Racemes terminal, to 30 cm long, loosely many-flowered, bracts acicular, filiform, pedicel 1–1.5 cm long; Flowers white to pinkish, 5–6 mm long; calyx cleft almost to base, segments lanceolate, acuminate, 3–4 mm long, with glandular dots in lines; corolla lobes suberect, apex rounded; stamens exserted, filaments 3–3.5 mm long, with minute glandular hairs, anthers ca. 1 mm long; ovary globose, style 3.5–4.5 mm long.
• Capsules globose, pistil persistent.

分布

• 台灣 : at low to mid elevations.
• 世界 : Japan, Korea, the Ryukyus, southern Asia and Australia.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Nankang, Peng 10442; Shuangkeng, Wang 826. ILAN: Tali, Yang 2726; Paling, Kuoh 2417. TAOYUAN: Hushing, Yang 2675, Lin 753. HSINCHU: Wufeng, Peng 9384; Chienshih, Kao 2094. MIAOLI: Shihtang, Peng 13930; Kuanwu Wang 8282. NANTOU: Tungpu, Peng 10933; Shenmu, Peng 10877. TAITUNG: Pailu, Kao 9666; Chiapoutai, Huang 595. HUALIEN: Chingshui, Shimizu & Kao 11600; Tienhsiang, Chuang & Kao 4410.

參考文獻

• KAO, Muh-Tsuen and PENG, Ching -I, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 66. 1989.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)