生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs. Stems usually branched in upper part, ascending, usually caespitose, 3–5 cm long tall, usually drawn at anthesis, to 13 cm long tall.
• Leaves plicate, closely crowded on stem, aristate-acuminate at apex.
• Flowers pedicellate, solitary and terminal; calyx-tube campanulate, with 5 smooth costae; calyx lobes narrow triangular, 4 mm long; corolla blue or purplish blue, tubular-campanulate, aristate-acuminate at apex. Stamens 2–2.5 mm long, filaments ca. 12 mm long. Ovary shortly stipitate, ovoid-ellipsoid to narrowly ovoid, gynophore 3–4 mm long, style 3–4 mm long, stigma bifurcate and spirally recurved at anthesis.
• Capsules obovoid, 5–7 mm long, 3–4 mm long wide, stipe 10–17 mm long, 2-valved, dehiscent. Seeds ovoid, with minute longitudinally reticulate-striae, 0.9 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : in sunny places in grasslands and exposed rocky places on high mountains. Usually in the northern and central parts of the central mountain range from 2,500 to 3,900 m.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipingshan, Suzuki s. n. 1925. HSINCHU: Kuanwu, Huang 6692; Tapachienshan, Chen 1441. MIAOLI: Luchangtashan, Fukuyama 3497. TAICHUNG: Tahsuehshan, Lu 323; Nanhutashan, Chen 1000*; Hsuehshan, Kao 3955. NANTOU: Wuling, Peng 14470; Hohuanshan, Chen 1266. CHIAYI: Yushan, Kawakamii & Mori s. n. 1906 (Holotype, TI; isotype, TAIF). HUALIEN: Patolushan, Wang 364; Tayuling, Kuo 1955.

參考文獻

• WANG, Jenn-Che, CHEN, Chih-Hsiung, LU, Chang-Tze and CHEN, Ya-Chi, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 157. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)