生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herb; stems erect or decumbent, rooting only at base, 5–20 cm long, obscurely 3-angled towards apex.
• Leaves ovate, 2–3.5 cm long, 1–2.2 cm wide; petioles 3–10 mm long.
• Flowers perfect, solitary, axillary; pedicels 1–1.5 cm long; calyx lobes narrowly oblong, 3–3.5 mm long, entire, pubescent; corolla bilabiate, 6–7 mm long, yellowish white or white, sometimes streaked with violet; all five anthers with trichomes at apex.
• Fruit a capsule, 4–6 mm long; seeds distinctly trigonous.

分布

• 台灣 : in moist forests and thickets; 100–3,000 m.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in eastern Asia, from India and Sri Lanka to China, south to New Guinea.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Huangtitienshan, Peng 8562. ILAN: Fushan, Peng et al. 13892. TAOYUAN: Chiaopanshan, Peng 8666. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Leu et al. 309. CHIAYI: Fanlu, Peng 10060. TAITUNG: Taoyuan, Lin et al. 128.

參考文獻

• LAMMERS, Thomas G. 1998. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 792. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)