生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Herbs, stoloniferous. Stems slender, glabrous, rooting at nodes.
• Leaves opposite; blade fleshy, glabrous, orbicular or obovate, 1–2 cm long, apex emarginate or retuse, base attenuate or cuneate; petioles 2–4 mm long.
• Flowers small, white, axillary, solitary or 3–5 in fascicles; pedicel 3–4 mm long; calyx 5-lobed, ca. 2.8 mm long, the lobes ovate, glabrous; corolla urceolate, 5-lobed, glabrous outside, with tufts of hairs inside, thickened at apex; corona 5-lobed, lobes with recurved arms; pollinia erect, compressed; stigma obtusely conical.
• Follicles 1 or 2 per pedicel, smooth, cylindric, slightly falcate, 4–5.5 cm long, 3–4 mm broad. Seeds flat, oblong, 3–4 mm long, 1 mm broad, comose.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets at low to medium elevations.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shuangfeng, Peng 1453; Wulai, Masamune 378. ILAN: Taipingshan, Suzuki s. n. 1928; Tayenshan, Kao 3197. PINGTUNG: Kaoshifo, Kudo & Suzuki 16072; Mutan, Hsu 14306; Paiwan, Matuda s. n. 1917. HUALIEN: Shuilienwe, Yamamoto 1054. TAITUNG: Chinshuiying, Shimizu 3809; Lanyu, Tienchi, Huang 10367.

參考文獻

• LU, Fu-Yuan, KAO, Muh-Tsuen, HUANG, Shing-Fan and WANG, Jenn-Che, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 227. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)