生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Herbs to 40 cm tall; stems slender, procumbent, often rooting at lower nodes.
• Leaves ovate or elliptic, 2–5 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, apex short acuminate or obtuse, base abruptly acute or nearly rounded, margins obscurely serrate, both surfaces glabrous or sparingly hirsute; petiole 5–10 mm long, glabrous.
• Flowers solitary, axillary or quasiterminal, subsessile; bracts none; bracteoles 2, linear-spatulate, ca. 6 mm long, somewhat hirsute; calyx to 8 mm long, divided nearly to base, segments linear, pubescence similar to that of bracteoles; corolla bluish, glabrous without, limb 5-lobed, lobes subequal, triangular-rounded, often emarginate at tip; stamens long-exserted, filaments glabrous, anthers oblong-linear; ovary cylindric-elliptic, apiculate at tip, ca. 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, densely long, appressed hairy.

分布

• 台灣 : Widely distributed in the central mountain ranges at medium elevations and in the Tatung Range.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Chutzuhu, Hsieh 893; Wulaishan, Hsieh 1011. ILAN: Taipingshan, Sasaki s. n. 1930; Suyuan, Chung & Kao 2457. HSINCHU: Luchangtashan, Fukuyama 3455. NANTOU: Weishangshan, Hsieh 634. KAOHSIUNG: Meishan, Hsieh 205. HUALIEN: Chingshuishan, Simizu & Kao 11689; Shakadanshe, Hsieh 854.

參考文獻

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