生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Plants 0.7-1.0 m high, more or less tomentose.
• Leaves petiolate; ligule 4-8 mm long, bilobed; leaf blade oblong to lanceolate, 20-50 cm long, 4-9 cm wide, base oblique or cuneate, apex acuminate, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, sparsely to densely tomentose on both surfaces, sericeous at margin and below midrib, lateral veins indistinct.
• Panicles erect, 12-18 cm long, rachis and branches tomentose, each branch with 1-2 flowers; bracts minute, deciduous. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate; bracteoles minute, oblong, glabrous, deciduous, or absent; calyx light red, tubular, 9-13 mm long, shortly 3-lobed; corolla- tube white mingled with light red, 10-13 mm long, lobes oblong, light red, dorsal lobe 13-15 × 7-9 mm, laterals 10-13 × 5-7 mm; labellum obovate, white to pinkish with red stripes at center and margin, 14-18 × 12-15 mm, slightly concave, apex emarginate or rounded, margin crispate; staminodes linear to lanceolate, red, 5-6 mm long; anther 8-9 mm long; thecae parallel; filament 8 mm long; stigma expanded, ciliated orifice; style slender, 28 mm long; epigynous glands columnar, yellow, ca. 3 mm long; ovary green, tomentose, 3-5 mm long.
• Capsule irregularly globose, indistinctly ribbed.
• putatively derived from <i>A. japonica</i> and <i>A. pricei</i>, which is supported by morphological and ecogeographical evidences.

引證標本

Taipei County: Shuanghsi Township, Wantan, ca. 450 m alt., S.-C. Liu 2776 (TNU). Ilan County: Chiaohsi Township, Wufengchi, along a trail to Mt. Sheng-mu-feng (Mt. Madonna), 700-800 m alt., P.-F. Lu 9606 (TNU, TAI, TAIF), Mt. Hongludishan, 700-1000 m alt., S.-C. Liu 2689 (TNU, TAIF). Hualien County: Hoping Township, ca. 23 Km from the entrance of Hoping logging trail, ca. 1500 m alt., S.-C. Liu 2621 (TNU).

參考文獻

• Shu-Chuan Liu and Jenn-Che Wang. 2009. Taiwania 54(2): 134-139.