生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Stems prostrate or ascending, glabrous.
• Leaves oblong to triangular, glabrous, thick-coriaceous, lustrous, 2–3 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, apex rounded or emarginate, base cordate or sagittate.
• Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered or few-flowered cymes; pedicel 6–8 cm long, axillary, bracts widely ovate, 7–10 mm long; sepals linear-ovate, glabrous, apex obtuse, 6–8 mm long; corolla pink or purplish, ca. 2 cm long, funnelform; ovary l-locular, stigma ellipsoid, complanate.
• Capsule partly enclosed by persistent and thickened calyx, 1.2 cm across; seeds thick, black, ca. 7 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : found along sandy seashores in the north.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in temperate coastal strand on all continents.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Sanchih, C.-I Peng 10363; Yehliu, Chung 2095.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 344. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)