生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annual trailing or twining herbs, strigose.
• Leaves orbicular or reniform, 16–10 cm across, palmately divided into 3–7 segments, segments elliptic-oblong, apex attenuate or slightly acuminate, base cordate, sinuses rounded; petiole 2.5–8 cm long.
• Flowers in long-peduncled, axillary heads; bracts 6–8, outer ones oblong to linear-oblong, 1.5–3 cm long, inner ones smaller; sepals 7–12 mm long, herbaceous, lanceolate; corolla funnelform, 3–4 cm long, white or pink, midpetaline bands sparsely hairy; filaments glabrous; ovary glabrous.
• Capsules ovoid, 8 mm long; seeds 4, grayish-tomentose, 4 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets at low elevations and near the seashore.
• 世界 : Tropical east Africa, Australia, Pacific islands, and Asia.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Staples et al. 1120; Foukaunshan, S. Z. Yang 22812; K. C. Yang 1413; Chigin, Chune s. n. PINGTUNG: Kweilai, S. Z. Yang 011; Pauli, Yeh 905;. Staples et al. 1102.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 367. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)