Epithema ceylanicum

錫蘭盾座苣苔

Epithema ceylanicum Gardner

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特徵描述

典藏標本

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相關資訊

Gardner, Calcutta Journal of Natural History and Miscellany of the Arts and Sciences in India 6: 492. pl. 94. 1846. (Calcutta J. Nat. Hist.)

Bransgrove & Middleton, Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 67(1):159-(1): 160. 2015.

Epithema brunonis Decne. var. fasciculata C.B. Clarke

A. DC. & C. DC., Monographiae Phanerogamarum 5(1): 180. 1883. (Monogr. Phan.)
Epithema taiwanense S. S. Ying

Ying, Cloured illustrated flora of Taiwan : Includes introduced species 4: 795. pl. 94. 1992. (Col. Ill. Fl. Taiwan Intr. Pl.)
Epithema taiwanense S. S. Ying var. fasciculata (Clarke) Z. Y. Li & M. T. Kao

Z. Y. Li & M. T. Kao, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 697. 1998. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)

herb

Stems 2–7 cm tall, nodes 1 or 2, puberulous, unbranched.
Lower cauline leaf 1, petiolate; blade ovate or widely ovate, 2–6 cm long, 1.2–5 cm wide, membranaceous, both surfaces puberulous, base cordate, margins obscurely crenulate to serrulate, apex obtuse; lateral veins 3–5 pairs. Upper cauline leaves opposite or verticillate, subsessile or petiolate; blade widely ovate, 0.4–3 cm long 0.3–2.5 cm wide, base subcordate.
Cymes 3–15-flowered, peduncles 1–4 cm long, puberulous; bracts ovate, 4–6 mm long. Pedicel ca. 0.1 mm long, puberulous. Calyx ca. 5 mm long, lobes triangular, outside puberulous. Corolla pinkish to violet, glabrous outside, with a few hairs inside, tube ca. 2.5 mm long, upper lip 1–1.5 mm long, lower lip 1.5–2 mm long. Stamens glabrous; anthers orbicular, ca. 0.8 mm long; staminodes 2, minute. Ovary globose, glabrous.
Capsule subglobose, enclosed by persistent calyx, 1.5 mm in diam., glabrous. Seeds fusiform, ca. 0.5 mm long.