生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Suffruticose plants, to 100 cm tall, covered with stellate hairs; stems square, angles obtuse, stellate pubescent.
• Leaves petiolate; petioles 5–30 mm long, stellate-pubescent; blades 4–10 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, elliptic to broadly elliptic, base obtuse, apex acute, margins serrate, both surfaces stellate-pubescent, densely so on veinlets beneath.
• Inflorescences of axillary umbel-like cymes; leafy bracts elliptic, apex acute, upper surface glabrous or sparsely stellate pubescent, lower surface stellate pubescent. Flowers pedicellate; pedicel to 0.3 cm long, stellate pubescent; calyx 0.8–1 cm long, campanulate, stellate-hairy, 5-toothed, teeth nearly equal, narrowly triangular, acuminate, 5–8 mm long.
• Chromosome number 2n = 34.

物候

Flowering in July.

分布

• 台灣 : This species is characterized by the stellate hairs borne on all parts of the plant.

引證標本

CHIAYI: Mt. Ali, Yashimura s. n. 1941; Chisinliao, Yen & Kao 10730. TAINAN: Kwantzuling, Hsieh 1600. KAOHSIUNG: Shanping, Huang 4896. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Leong s. n. 1997. TAITUNG: Shimizu 3655.

引用文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, HSIEH, Tsung-Hsin and CHENG, Wu-Tsang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 462. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)