生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs; rhizome usually enclosed by fibrous sheaths.
• Leaves several, in rosettes, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 10-15 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex acute to acuminate, base narrowed, chartaceous, margins entire or slightly undulate, midrib impressed on upper surface, elevated beneath, lateral veins inconspicuous.
• Flowers usually more than 15, white or yellowish white, 3-4 mm in diam., spicate or racemose; inflorescence from leaf clusters, erect or ascending, 30-50 cm long, pale brown, with scattered glandular hairs; bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, acute; pedicel 1-2 mm long, hairy; perianth segments connate at base, forming a tube, 6 lobed at apex; lobes equal, oblong, 2-3 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, acute; stamens 6, included or slightly exserted, inserted at the base of perianth segments; filaments slender; anthers ovoid-oblong, 0.5 mm long; ovary glabrous, half-inferior; style short, slightly 3-lobed.
• Fruit a capsule, ovoid, 3-angled, 5-6 mm long, ca. 3 mm across. Seeds numerous.

分布

• 台灣 : 2,000-3,500 m, throughout the island, in grasslands, rather common.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipingshan, Suzuki s. n. May 1929; Nanhutashan, Shimada SH1342. TAOYUEN: Tapachienshan, Ito s. n. Jun 1915. HSINCHU: Luchangtashan, Fukuyama 3488. NANTOU: Hohuanshan, Ying 1238. TAICHUNG: Haiaoshuehshan, Liu et al. 297; Hseuhshan, Sasaki s. n. Jun 1932. CHIAYI: Morrisonshan, Kawakami & Mori s. n. Sep 1918. HUALIEN: Tayuling, Chuang 4429.

參考文獻

• YING, Shao-Shun, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 36. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)