生活型

twiner

形態特徵

• Slender, hairy twiners.
• Leaves cordate-ovate, 6–9 cm long, 4–5 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, entire but usually 3-lobed to middle or beyond, sinuses rounded at bottom, puberulent on both surfaces; petiole 2–2.5 cm long.
• Flowers 1–3 on short axillary peduncle; sepals lanceolate, acuminate to linear, apex spreading or curved, villous, 1.5–2 cm long; corolla funnelform, 3–5 cm long, limb 3–4 cm broad, blue or light purple, tube lighter in color; filaments hairy at base; ovary glabrous, stigma 3-globose.
• Capsules ovoid, 1.3 cm long, ca. 1 cm across, glabrous; seeds 6, black.

分布

• 台灣 : cultivated as an ornamental.
• 世界 : Tropical America.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei, C. H. Hsiao s. n. HSINCHU: Chupei, Wang & Chen 10235. TAICHUNG: Taichung, Chiu 1106. PINGTUNG: Neipu, S. Z. Yang 27899.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 361. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)