生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annual or biennial herbs; stems to 30 cm tall, single or less branched, sericeous-villose.
• Basal leaves in rosettes, spatulate, 3–18 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, petioles 5–6 cm long; cauline leaves ovate to oblong, 1–2 cm long, 5–7 mm wide, apex acute, base attenuate, subsessile; hirsute on both surfaces.
• Cymes terminal, bracts lanceolate to narrowly ovate. Calyx 2–3 mm long, lobes deeply cleft, elliptic, hirsute. Corolla campanulate, blue to white, 5–8 mm long, tubes 1–1.5 cm long, throat with 5 oblong or subulate fornices. Stamens included, subsessile, anthers ca. 0.5 mm long. Styles 0.5 mm long, stigma truncate.
• Nutlets ovoid, truncate, ca. 1.5 mm long, outer cupular emergence with 15 teeth.

分布

• 台灣 : thickets and hillsides at low and middle elevations.
• 世界 : S. China, , Indochina and India.

引證標本

ILAN: Aohua, Huang 15019. TAOYUAN: Fuhsing, Yang 2666; Paling, Peng 1067. TAICHUNG: Neipu, Hsu 4710. NANTOU: Lushan, Huang 3494; Tungpu, Huang & Huang 15466. TAITUNG: Lutao, Huang 3657.

參考文獻

• HSIAO, Ju-Ying and LIU, Ho-Yih, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 398. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)