生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Aerial stems 7-22 cm long, erect.
• Leaves membranaceous, loosely on upper part, broadly to narrowly ovate, 1-nerved, subobtuse, 2-5 mm long, Racemes 1.5-6 cm long, loosely, several to more than 10-flowered; pedicel ascending, 2-5 mm long; bracts narrowly ovate, 2-3 mm long, shorter to slightly longer than pedicel.
• Flowers 3-4 mm across, tepals 6; outer 3 deltoid-ovate, acute, ca. 1 mm long, ca. half as long as inner 3, inner ones 1.5-3 mm long, ovate to deltoid-ovate, subacute. Stamens 1.5-2 mm long.
• Capsules ca. 3 mm long, with persistent style. Seeds ellipsoid-oblong, 0.5-0.7 mm long, with wing-like outer seed coat, endosperm with minute embryo brown.

分布

• 世界 : Myanmar, Malesia, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, and Japan.

引證標本

HSINCHU: Chutung, northern part of Rulinshan, above Pabunbagayu, 1,400 m, Suzuki 21365.

參考文獻

• OHASHI, Hiroyoshi, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 72. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)