生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Herbs, twining, slender, glabrous or hairy.
• Leaves widely ovate, 4–10 cm long, 2–9 cm wide, entire, apex acuminate, base cordate, sinuses rounded, glabrous or sparsely puberulent on both surfaces; petiole 3–6 cm long.
• Inflorescence peduncle filiform, 2–8 cm long; pedicel 1–2 cm long; bracts minute; sepals coriaceous, ovate, apex obtuse, 2–4 mm long; corolla funnelform, 1.5–1.8 cm long, yellowish-white with darker midpetaline bands and a dark purple center; filaments very unequal in length, hairy at base; ovary glabrous.
• Capsules 6–9 cm long, ovoid; seeds 4–5 mm long, black, gray-puberulent.

分布

• 台灣 : widely distributed at low elevations.
• 世界 : Tropical Asia, Africa, the Pacific islands, and northern Australia.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Daken, S. T. Chiu et al. 3270. KAOHSIUNG: Staples et al. 1107; Kaushu, C. E. Chang 339. PINGTUNG: Hsiaoliuchio, C. C. Lin. s. n.; Neipu, S. Z. Yang 3979.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 366. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)