生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Herbs annual, stem 5–15 cm tall; branches and stem brown, crisped white pilose.
• Leaves ovate, 0.5–2.5 cm long, 0.3–2 cm wide, herbaceous, purple at least abaxially, sparsely fine pilose brownish glandular, densely pilose on veins, apex acute, base broadly cuneate, margins serrulate, petiole 2–12 mm long, densely pilose.
• Spikes terminal, cylindric, 1–4 cm long; verticillasters 6–10-flowered; bracts united into a shallow cup at each node, mucronate, strongly overlapping, membranaceous, many-veined, sparsely fine pilose abaxially, yellow glandular, more or less purplish, margin ciliate; calyx tubular, membranaceous, transparent, ca. 2 mm long, sparsely pubescent, golden glandular outside, glabrous inside; teeth subequal, lanceolate, margin ciliate; corolla white, 3–4 mm long, sparsely puberulent outside, glabrous inside; tube slender, funnelform, upper lip emarginate, middle lobe of lower lip longer and wider, margin entire; stamens included.
• nutlets yellowish, ellipsoid.

分布

• 台灣 : on open roadside in Central Mountains from 2,500 to 3,500 m.
• 世界 : India, Nepal and China.

引證標本

CHIAYI: Mt. Ali, Huang 1761*; Yushan, Ying s. n. 1991 (Type of E. yushania Ying, NTUF!)

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, HSIEH, Tsung-Hsin and CHENG, Wu-Tsang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 459. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)