生活型

twiner

形態特徵

• Stems twining or prostrate, glabrous or somewhat hirsute.
• Leaves palmately compound; leaflets 5, glabrous, narrowly oblong or lanceolate, entire, 2.5–3.5 cm long, 2.5–7.5 mm wide, apex obtuse or mucronate, base narrowed, entire; petiole 1–3.5 cm long.
• Flowers 1 or 2, peduncle glabrous or hairy at base, variable in length; pedicel 8–9 mm long, glabrous; bracts 3–4 mm long, ovate; sepals ovate or oblong, glabrous, obtuse, inner ones 10–13 mm long, outer ones 7.5–8.5 mm long; corolla to 5 cm long, white or pale pink; ovary glabrous.
• Capsules ovoid, somewhat acuminate, ca. 12 mm long; seeds smooth, angular, apex crested.

分布

• 台灣 : in the center and south at low elevations.
• 世界 : Northern Australia, New Guinea, Indonesia and tropical Asia.

引證標本

TAINAN: Kawakami 20647.

參考文獻

• STAPLES, George William and YANG, Sheng-Zehn, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 379. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)