生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Stems 10–30 cm tall.
• Leaves elliptic or oblanceolate, 3–16 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, base attenuate.
• Pedicels 3–15 mm long; calyx lobes narrowly triangular or linear, 8–20 mm long; corolla pure white, 6–15 cm long; anther tube 4–6 mm long.
• Capsule ellipsoid, 7–8 mm long.
• Chromosome number n = 14. <li>Name derived from the Greek <i>hippos</i>, horse, and <i>bromos</i>, poison, in reference to its extremely toxic latex. </li>

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Liukuei, Chen & Wang 343.

參考文獻

• LAMMERS, Thomas G., Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 787. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)