生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs; stems erect, 30–60 cm tall, terete or subquadrangular, slightly pubescent.
• Leaves membranaceous, ovate or elliptic-oblong, 3–9 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, apex acuminate, base acute or obtuse, margins entire or slightly undulate, deep green above, glabrous except loosely puberulent on nerves; petiole upper surface.
• Flowers rather few, crowded in terminal racemes or sparingly branched panicles to 15 cm long, rachis of inflorescence puberulent; bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 1–2 cm long; calyx segments broadly linear, ca. 4 mm long; corolla white, ca. 8 mm long, limb 5-lobed, lobes subequal, rounded at apex; stamens 2, with 2 minute staminodes; ovary glabrous.
• Capsule oblanceolate, narrowed to a spike-like base, ca. 1.6 cm long, glabrous; seeds 4, suborbicular.

分布

• 台灣 : widely distributed in broad-leaved forests at lower elevations.
• 世界 : India, southern China, the Ryukyus and Japan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Chingpingshan, Hsieh 1240; Hsiungkungshan, Hsieh 414. ILAN: Kueishan Is., Hsieh 1048; Taipingshan, Huang 3949. CHIAYI: Chungpu, Mori s. n. 1934. KAOHSIUNG: Shanping, Hsieh 786. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Chuang 2396; Manchou, Hsieh 744. TAITUNG: Lanyu, Hsieh 1224. HUALIEN: Lungchien, Hsieh 825; Shanakanshe, Hsieh 853; Luanshan, Huang 4273A.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 651. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)