生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Evergreen shrubs.
• Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 9–20 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, apex long acuminate to caudate, base obtuse, rounded to subcordate, margin serrulate, sparsely cup-shaped glandular on both surfaces, sparsely yellowish glandular dotted adaxially, densely so abaxially, densely glandular and pilose adaxially, densely pilose and dendritic hairy intermixed with glandular hairs abaxially, lateral veins 10–15(–18) pairs; petioles less than 1 cm long, densely pilose.
• Inflorescence up to 20 pairs in one year's growth on main branches, ca. 6-branched; peduncle 1–4 cm long; bracts linear. Pedicel usually less than 1 mm long; calyx 1–2 mm long, loosely to densely glandular and pilose hairy outside, teeth usually with cup-shaped glands abaxially; corolla lobes obtuse to rounded, purplish to pink adaxially, sparsely yellowish glandular dotted and whitish abaxially, tube ca. 2.5 mm long, glabrous; stamens usually 5–8 mm long, filaments glabrous; ovary densely yellow glandular dotted except at base.
• Fruit globose, to 4 mm across, loosely yellow glandular dotted all over the surface, purplish turning white when ripe.

分布

• 台灣 : Scattered at low to medium elevations throughout the island, usually on roadside or open places.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanao, T. T. Chen 7802. TAIPEI: Hsinhsien, T. T. Chen 7849; Tatungshan. TAOYUAN: Junghua, T. T. Chen 7251. HSINCHU: Chenchiaoshih, S. Suzuki s. n. in 1937. TAICHUNG: Pa-hsien Shan, S. Suzuki s. n. in 1929. NANTOU: Chingshuikou Tract, T. C. Huang 1922. KAOHSIUNG: Tengchih, T. C. Huang et al. 13826. PINGTUNG: Tanlu, T. T. Chen 7305. TAITUNG: Taiyuan, T. T. Chen 7358. HUALIEN: Hojun, T. T. Chen 7798.

參考文獻

• YANG Yuen-Po , LU Sheng-You and CHEN Tien-Tsai, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 412. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)