Codonacanthus pauciflorus

針刺草

Codonacanthus pauciflorus (Nees) Nees

名彙資訊

特徵描述

典藏標本

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相關資訊

名彙資訊

學名發表文獻

Nees, Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 11: 103. 1847. (Prodr.)

台灣首次記錄發表文獻

Forbes & Hemsl., The journal of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 26: 244. 1890. (J. Linn. Soc., Bot.)

異名

無

各語言俗名

中

抱莖蟑螂.

參考文獻

W. C. Lin, Wild flowers of Taiwan - the 1300 species found in the lower elevation . 2005. (Wild flowers of Taiwan)

特徵描述

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.