生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Herbaceous, slender, twining or prostrate vines, patently or retrorsely hairy.
• Leaves 3–8 cm long, 1.5–6 cm wide, ovate, apex attenuate, base cordate, sparsely strigose on both surfaces, lateral veins 5–7 on each side of midrib; petiole 1–6 cm long.
• Inflorescence 1–3-flowered, axillary, subsessile; pedicel 5–7 mm long, hairy; bracts 2–3 mm long; sepals hairy, ciliate, subequal, 7–8 mm long, outer 2 long and linear-acuminate, base broad triangular, slightly cordate to truncate, inner ones narrower; corolla tubular to funnelform, 9–13 mm long, white, midpetaline bands pilose apically; filaments glabrous, base usually hairy; ovary and style glabrous.
• Capsules broadly ovoid to globose, ca. 7 mm long; seeds 4–4.5 mm long, short brown- to gray-tomentose.

分布

• 台灣 : at low elevations throughout the island.
• 世界 : India, southern China, the Philippines, Malaysia to Australia (Queensland).

引證標本

HSINCHU: Staples et al. 1071; Hsinchu, Loa 140. MIAOLI: Tunghsiao, Staples et al. 1082. TAICHUNG: Kundaochi, Liu et al. 2118; M. T. Kao 9704, C. -I Peng 1023. YUNLIN: Kouhu, J. C. Lin 15; W. S. Tang 696. TAINAN: Hsinhua, Ou et al. 2995, Liu et al. 217; M. T. Kao 10392. KAOHSIUNG: Meishan, Ou 1277; Staples et al. 1106. PINGTUNG: Pauli, J. C. Wang s. n.; Fountein, Y. L. Chune 561; Linlou, Y. C. Tsu s. n. PENGHU: Chitung, C. J. Cheng 245; T. C. Huang & M. T. Kao 6860.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 358. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)