生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs, to 30 cm tall; stems ascending or decumbent, pubescent.
• Leaves chartaceous, petiolate; petioles 4–6 mm long; blade broadly ovate, 1–2.2 cm long, 1–2.2 cm wide, base truncate, apex obtuse to rounded, margins with 4 or 5 shallow crenations.
• Inflorescences a terminal raceme, 4–15 cm long; pedicels twisted, nearly in a single plane. Flower bilabiate; corolla purplish-blue, tubular, 1.0–1.2 cm long, geniculate at base. Pollen grains 3-colpate, prolate, 15–20×10–15 m ornamentation rugulate-reticulate to reticulate and microperforate.
• Nutlets orbicular, 1.3 mm long, 0.9 mm wide, seed coat with short grappling-hook tubercles, hilum lateral.
• Chromosome number 2n = 26.

分布

• 台灣 : On steep slopes and forest edges between 400 and 500 m in <i>Machilus</i>-dominated forests on Lilongshan.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Lilongshan, Huang et al. 16266* (Holotype, TAI, isotype TAI, TNM, HAST)

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, HSIEH, Tsung-Hsin and CHENG, Wu-Tsang, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 530. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)