生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Ascending herbs. Stems hirsute.
• Leaves membranaceous, ovate or orbicular-ovate, 7–22 mm long, 7–17 mm wide, apex obtuse, base broadly cuneate, margins remotely undulate or entire, upper surface green, lower surface slightly paler, both surfaces pilose, prominently white-reticulate.
• Panicles or spikes erect, simple, up to 4 cm long, rachis glandular-pilose. Flowers sessile, bracts, bracteoles and calyx segments glandular-pilose without, glandular-punctate inside; bracts oblanceolate, 2–3 cm long; bracteoles 2, linear, ca. 2 mm long; calyx segments ca. 3–3.5 mm long; corolla ca. 5 mm long, glabrous without, lower lobes obovate elliptic, spreading, 2.5–3 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, apex obtuse , tube 2.5–3 mm long, throat slightly puberulous inside; filaments glabrous, ca. 1 mm long, anthers oblong, 0.8 mm long; pollen grains 3-porate, subprolate in equatorial view, circular in polar view, 50–60 mm long, finely reticulate; ovary up to 1.5 mm long, glabrous; style filiform, 4 mm long, glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : Eastern Taiwan, especially the Taitung Coast Range, in forests at low elevations.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Chihpen to Chuifen, Hosokawa 5192 (Type, TAI). HUALIEN: Antung, Liu et al. 289.

引用文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 669. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)