生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Annual saprophytic herbs. Stem erect, simple or rarely branched, 5-16 cm tall, white, glabrous.
• Leaves scale-like, lanceolate, 1.5-3.5 mm long, appressed to the stem. Inflorescence a simple or compound cyme with 1-7 flowers; pedicels 3-6 mm long, slightly triangular at top, nearly terete at base.
• Flower erect, whitish; perianth-tube conical, 4-6.3 mm long, 2.5-5 mm in diam., 6-lobed at top, 3-winged outside, wings located above and below ovary, semi-oblong, 0.6-1.8 mm wide, outer lobes broadly triangular, about 0.5 mm long, with thick margins, yellow inner lobes enclosed within, semiorbicular, minute, yellow; stames 3, opposite to inner lobes of perianth, connectives oblong, with processes at base, anthers nearly obicular, sessile; ovary subglobose, 3-angled; style erect, 1-2 mm long; stigma 3-lobed, cohering to stamens, lobes recurved and bilobed at apex.
• Capsules obovoid, 3-3.5 mm long, with persistent perianth.

分布

• 台灣 : only found in a bamboo plantation at the central part of the island.
• 世界 : the Ryukyus.

引證標本

NANTOU: Hoshe. Hu 6092; Leou 5916.

參考文獻

• Ohashi, Leou and Hsieh. 2000. Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 143. (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)