生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annual or perennial procumbent herbs; stems to 20 cm tall, much branched, strigose.
• Leaves alternate, linear, 5–15 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide, uninerved, apex acute, base obtuse to rounded, margins entire; densely strigose on both surfaces, subsessile.
• Cymes terminal and subterminal, flowers in 2 rows, pedicels of lower flowers ca. 1 mm long, upper flowers sessile; bracts ovate, ca. 2.5 mm long, strigose. Calyx deeply cleft, lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 2.5 mm long, strigose. Corolla white, 3–4 mm long. Stamens sessile, anthers ovate, ca. 0.7 mm long. Style ca. 5 mm long; stigma small, ovate or conical.
• Fruit 1 mm long, 1.5 mm in diam., strigillose above middle, breaking into 2 2-seeded pyrenes.

分布

• 台灣 : sandy places along the coast.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Tonlou, Hsu s. n. PENGHU: Fongkuai, Hsu & Kuoh 14017; Penghu, Huang 6813. PINGTUNG: Maopitou, Huang & Huang 13505; Oluanpi, Ou & Kao 9008.

參考文獻

• HSIAO, Ju-Ying and LIU, Ho-Yih, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 396. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)