生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Small saprophytic plants. Stem white, 5-7 cm tall, usually unbranched.
• Cauline leaves scale-like, alternate, triangular-lanceolate, 3-5 mm.
• Inflorescences terminal, flower solitary or 2-4 forming dichotomous cymes. Flower sessile or shortly pedicellate. Perianth 3-winged, wings ca. 1.5 mm wide, narrower in lower part, white, tube 5-8 mm. Outer perianth-lobes 3, light yellow, ovate, ca. 3 mm, apex acute; inner lobes lacking or very small. Stamens 3, sessile or subsessile, inserted at throat of corolla, anther connective basally spurless, apical appendages crested and apically obtuse. Ovary ovoid, 4-5 mm; style 3-4 mm, apically 3-branched; stigma spheroid.
• Capsule obovoid, with numerous seeds.

分布

• 台灣 : found in the litter layer of warm temperate broad-leaved forest dominated by Fagaceae and Lauraceae at low elevations in the northern and northeastern part.
• 世界 : Japan and China (Hainan).

引證標本

Taipei Co.: Wulai, Yun Hsien Holiday Resort, Chung & Yu 8010 (TAIF). Ilan Co.: Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Fushan Research Station, Chang 6245 (TNU; TESRI, Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute).

參考文獻

• Tsai-Wen Hsu, Ho-Ming Chang, Sheng-Hsin Su, Shih-Wen Chung and Jenn-Che. 2005. Taiwania 50(4): 302-306.