生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs to 1 m tall; stems branched, lower parts terete, glabrous; upper parts subquadrangular, moderately hirsute.
• Leaves chartaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 6–15 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base gradually narrowed, margins obscurely or shallowly serrate, nearly glabrous; petiole short, somewhat hirsute.
• Flowers sessile, 3 or more crowded in cymules, axillary or terminal; peduncles to 8 cm long, rarely branched; bracts concave, caducous, outermost pair lanceolate, ca. 1.5 cm long, nearly glabrous, inner bracts 4 or more, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, ca. 1 cm long, slightly ciliate; calyx to 1 cm long, segments linear, densely glandular hairy; corolla 3–4 cm long, glandular-puberulent outside; stamens included, filaments glabrous, anthers broadly triangular-cordate; ovary ovoid-cylindric; style to 3.5 cm long, with few glandular hairs.
• Capsule spatulate-ellipsoid; seeds 4, ovoid, compressed, ca. 4 mm long, 3 mm wide, appressed villous.

分布

• 台灣 : in the center and south from low to medium (ca. 1,200 m) elevations.
• 世界 : India, Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam and southwestern China.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Paileng, Hsieh 321; Chiapaotai, Hsieh 711. NANTOU: Jenai, Masamune et al. 2230; Lushan, Hsieh 295. KAOHSIUNG: Shanping, Hsieh 922. PINGTUNG: Machia, Huang 7423, 7432. TAITUNG: Chinshuiying, Suzuki 7918; Wutoushan, Hosokawa 5338.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 684. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)