大武金腰 da wu jin yao

Herbs 4-10 cm tall. Rhizomes elongate. Sterile branches arising from leaf axils, villous. Stems sparsely villous. Basal leaves petiolate; leaf blade broadly ovate, 0.7-1.5 × 0.7-1.5 cm, sparsely villous, base broadly cuneate, margin obscurely 6-8-crenate. Cauline leaves 4-6, opposite; petiole 2-4 mm, villous; leaf blade broadly orbicular-ovate or subrhombic to flabellate, 5-10 × 5-10 mm, pilose, base broadly cuneate, margin 4-6-crenate. Cyme few flowered; bracteal leaves obovate, small, base cuneate, margin 2-6-crenate. Flowers green, 2-3 mm in diam. Sepals erect, broadly ovate to orbicular, 1.5-2 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 8; filaments ca. 1 mm. Capsule with carpels erect; rostrums 0.5-0.8 mm. Seeds dark brown, subellipsoid, ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous, with transverse, undulate lines. Fr. Apr-May.

* Forests. Taiwan.