生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Suffrutescent herbs to 1 m tall; stems ascending or decumbent, subterete, upper portions minutely pubescent.
• Leaves ovate-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 4–14 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base obtuse or cuneate, margins slightly undulate, both surfaces glabrous; petiole to 2 cm long. Panicles terminal or axillary, lax, to 40 cm long, branches usually subtended by small leaf blades.
• Flowers 1 or 2, crowded at tips of branches; bracts subtending flowers, linear-lanceolate, ca. 4.5 mm long; calyx deeply 5-partite, segments linear, puberulent with glandular and nonglandular hairs; corolla reddish-purple, up to 2 cm long, puberulent outside, limb bilabiate, upper lip elliptic, ca. 8 mm long, 7 mm wide, rounded at tip, lower lip oblong-elliptic, ca. 12 mm long and 5 mm wide, very slightly 3-lobed; stamens exserted 8 mm beyond mouth of corolla tube; style 2 cm long, sparingly strigose, stigma shortly 2-lobed.
• Capsule oblong-ovoid, ca. 1.3 cm long, densely puberulent; seeds 4 or fewer, ellipsoid, verrucose.

分布

• 台灣 : in the south.
• 世界 : The Philippines and southern China.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG CITY: Chichin, Huang 4649. KAOHSIUNG: Shanping, Hsieh 722. PINGTUNG: Hsiaoliuchiu Is., Hosokawa 1803; Oluanpi, Kudo & Suzuki 15921. TAITUNG: Tawu, Hsieh 382.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 661. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)