生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs; stems usually branched, tetragonal, puberulous.
• Leaves mostly sessile, oblong or ovate, 3.5–10 cm long, 0.8–4 cm wide, chartaceous, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, margin coarsely toothed, sometimes deeply lobed in lower part, both surfaces hirsute.
• Inflorescence spicate, slender, loosely flowered; bracts linear lanceolate, ca. 2 mm long. Flowers blue to purple, ca. 2 mm long, 5-toothed, puberulous outside; corolla ca. 4 mm long, puberulous; ovary glabrous.
• Drupes with 4 pyrenes.
• <i>Verbena litoralis</i> Kunth, a native of North America and widely distributed worldwide, is probably introduced and naturalized in Taiwan. A specimen of <i>Verbena</i> (M. T. Kao 10859) collected at Chuchia, Chiayi, is very similar to this species.

分布

• 台灣 : at low and medium elevations.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in the temperate and subtropical regions of the world.

引證標本

ILAN: Tali, W. S. Tang 1329; Chiaochi, T. C. Huang & S. F. Huang 13125. TAIPEI: Kuanyingshan, C. C. Chuang 2157; Pali, H. N. Yang 2372. TAOYUAN: Paling, H. L. Chiang 33. HSINCHU: Pawushan, Tsui & Kao s. n. in 1956; Litungshanchuang, C. M. Wang & H. M. Lin 1929. MIAOLI: Tahu, Y. C. Cheng 116. TAICHUNG: Ammashan, C. S. Feung & M. T. Kao 4446. NANTOU: Hos`he, T. C. Huang 2126; Lushan, I. M. Lin 52. KAOHSIUNG: Shihshan, C. C. Hsu et al. 13788; Taoyuan, J. C. Wang et al. 10348. TAITUNG: Lutao, T. C. Huang & M. T. Kao 6907. HUALIEN: Yuli, Yamamoto 3127.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 425. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)