生活型

twiner

形態特徵

• Stems twining, filiform, glabrous, yellowish, pale yellowish or golden yellowish
• Inflorescences lateral, few or many-flowered clusters or racemes. Flowers with very short pedicel; calyx lobes 5, ca. as long as corolla tube, calyx tube as long as lobes, lobes triangular, ridge on outer surface, apex obtuse; corolla 2–2.5 mm long, white, short-campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes slightly shorter or equalling tube, apex deltoid-ovate, apex acute or obtuse, scales shorter than tube, fimbriate; stamens exserted, shorter than corolla lobes, anthers ovoid; ovary globose, styles 2, slender, stigmas capitate.
• Capsules globose, ca. 3 mm wide, enclosed by persistent corolla, pericarp thin, circumscissile; locules 2, each with 2 seeds; seeds broadly ovate, 1 mm long, pale brown, not smooth.

分布

• 台灣 : at low elevations in the center and north.
• 世界 : Africa, Russia, throughout Asia, Indonesia to Australia.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shimada 5754. MIAOLI: Lu et al. 1185.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 347. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)