生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs with cylindrical tubers; stems woody below, scandent in upper portion.
• Leaves membranaceous, opposite, rarely alternate, broadly ovate-cordate, 15-18 cm long, 6-11 cm broad, acuminate, 9- or 10-nerved, shining; petiole 4-6 cm long. Peduncle axillary, 6-8 cm long, usually bifid; bracts small, lanceolate.
• Flowers erect; perianth segments spreading, lanceolate, ca. 4 cm long, longacuminate, greenish with many purplish nerves; stamens erect, filaments stout, red, connectives linearlanceolate, anthers linear, adnate at base to connective.
• Capsules ovoid-oblong, ca. 3 cm long.

分布

• 世界 : Northern India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and southern China.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Santao Spring, Huang 1063. TAICHUNG: Wushiken, Liu et al. 7; Hsiaohsuehshan, Kawakami & Mori 7200. CHIAYI: Chonglun, Yen & Kao 10693. TAINAN: Tsengwen Dam, Huang & Yang 4422. KAOHSIUNG: Hsiaolin, Tateishi & Hoshi 21662; Tengchu to Mt. Chuyungshan, Ohashi et al. 12931. PINGTUNG: Machia, Huang & Kao 7380. TAITUNG: Taitung Range, Yamamoto 347. HUALIEN: Takangkou to Shihtiwan, Tateishi et al. 16032.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, Chang-Fu, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 73. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)