生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Erect herb, dark-purplish red, glabrous. Stem simple, ca. 10 cm high, 0.6-1 mm in diameter.
• Leaves scake-like, oblong, acuminate to acute, ca. 1.2 mm long.
• Inflorescence terminal, racemose, erect, ca. 7 cm long, 30-flowered. Flowers andromonoecious. Bracts lanceolate, acute, ca. 1-2 mm long. Pedicels 2-2.5 mm long, recurred at flowering and fruiting stage. Perianth segments 6, 3 larger ones with alternating 3 smaller ones, reflexed; segment triangular, ca. 0.6 mm. Male flower stamens 3, filaments short; anther 3-lobed. Bisexual flower stamens 3. Carpels ca. 20-30, style inserted basally, club-shaped, apex papillate, exceeding the ovary.
• Fruits 2 mm in diameter. Seeds ellipsoidal, 0.6 mm long, with three concave grooves on abaxial side.
• <i>Sciaphila maculata</i> is distinct in its 30-flowered inflorescence, recurved pedicels, 3-celled stamens, and short styles just exceeding the carpels. The perianth segments of male flower are terminated by a tuft of hairs on Malaysia specimen (Meerendonk, 1984), but the specimen in Taiwan is glabrous at top of perianth segments. Since only one individual in this collection, more specimens are needed for this species in Taiwan.

分布

• 台灣 : distributed on mud stone slop at lower elevation in Taitung County.
• 世界 : Distributed in Philippines, Malaysia, Borneo, and New Guinea.

引證標本

Luanshan Bridge, ca. 200 m alt. C. S. Wu 1625 (TAI).

參考文獻

• Tsung-Hsin Hsieh, Chih-Sheng Wu and Kuoh-Cheng Yang. 2003. Taiwania 48(4): 244.