生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Branched shrubs, to 2 m tall; stems subquadrangular toward tip, glabrous.
• Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 10–30 cm long, 3–9 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate-attenuate, margins remotely serrate, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins 8–10 per side; petioles 2–4 cm long.
• Flowers opposite, remotely borne in terminal or axillary spikes; spikes to 14 cm long, often branched at or near base to form a loose panicle; peduncle short; bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate; bracteoles linear, 1–1.2 cm long; calyx segments equal, linear, over lapping at base; corolla pale purple to white, 2.5–3 cm long, limb 5-lobed, lobes subequal, triangular rounded; filaments up to 8 mm long, hirsute at base; ovary cylindric-oblong, slightly hirsute above; style to 3.2 cm long, densely hirsute.
• Capsule linear, ca. 2 cm long; seeds oblong-orbicular, appressed hirsute.

分布

• 台灣 : A semi-woody plant in forests in the south, especially on the Hengchun Peninsula.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Manchou, Hsieh 739; Machia, Huang 7511. TAITUNG: Alangweishe, Hsieh 715; Chinshuiying, Hsieh 738.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 680. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)