生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, erect or ascending.
• Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, 8–15 cm long, 6–12 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cordate, puberulent on both surfaces when young, glabrescent adaxially, midrib with 2 small glands abaxially at base, lateral veins 6–9 on each side of midrib; petiole slender, 2.5–8 cm long.
• Cymes many-flowered; sepals alternating with glands, 5–6 mm long, orbicular, apex broader, puberulent; corolla pink or pale lilac, inside often dark purple toward base, 7–9 cm long, limb 8–12 cm across, midpetaline bands puberulent outside; filaments puberulent, base dilated; ovary and basal part of style puberulent.
• Capsules ovoid subglobose, 2 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide; seeds long woolly brown trichomes.

分布

• 台灣 : cultivated as an ornamental and sparingly naturalized.
• 世界 : Native of tropical America.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Kenting, C. E. Chang 8467; Tunkang, C. J. Lai 016; Pauli, Hsiao 90.

參考文獻

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