生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Slender, spreading or ascending herbs to 50 cm tall; stems subquadrangular, finely pubescent or glabrous.
• Leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, apex acuminate or obtuse, base rounded or acute, margins subentire, both surfaces with few scattered, strigose hairs; petioles to 4 mm long.
• Flowers solitary; bracteoles ovate or ovate-oblong, 8–10 mm long; calyx ca. 4 mm long, segments lanceolate, sparingly ciliate; corolla white, to 2 cm long, pubescent without; stamens not exserted, filaments glabrous; style ca. 1 cm long, hirsute throughout.
• Capsule ca. 1.2 cm long, slightly pubescent; seeds orbicular, flat.

分布

• 台灣 : known from the south, especially on the Hengchun Peninsula.
• 世界 : India to Hong Kong, the Philippines and Malaysia.

引證標本

TAINAN: Kuantien, Morimoto s. n. 1942. PINGTUNG: Kenting, Hsieh 622; Manchou, Hsieh 586.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 656. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)