Epilobium nankotaizanense Yamamoto

Herbs perennial, loosely matted with wiry spreading roots and fleshy soboles that creep and root at nodes, with dense basal scales. Stems 3-18 cm tall, usually branched above, strigillose throughout, mixed with glandular hairs on inflorescence. Leaves crowded on upper stems, leathery, rather fleshy; petiole 1-3 mm; cauline blade broadly elliptic to obovate or ovate, rarely to suborbicular, 0.8-2.1 × 0.5-1.2 cm, sparsely strigillose on margin and veins, otherwise glabrous, base attenuate or rarely subtruncate, margin weakly denticulate with 3-7 teeth per side, apex obtuse. Inflorescence ascending; flowers slightly nodding in bud. Sepals 1.1-1.7 cm. Petals rose-purple, 1.6-3.3 cm. Stigma subglobose, shallowly 4-lobed. Capsules 2-4.5 cm, sparsely strigillose and glandular; pedicels 0.4-0.7 cm. Seeds brown, 1.6-1.8 mm, finely reticulate, with short chalazal collar; coma tawny, persistent. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep. 2n = 36*.

Taiwan.

● Local on moist open scree slopes in high mountains; 2600-3800 m.

Epilobium nankotaizanense là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Anh thảo chiều. Loài này được Yamam. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1926.

南湖柳葉菜（學名：Epilobium nankotaizanense）屬於柳葉菜科柳葉菜屬，是台灣特有種高山植物，也是台灣少數存留的冰河孑遺植物，為多年生小型草本植物。

分布於台灣海拔2,600公尺以上山區，多集中在南湖大山、中央尖山一帶，少在馬博拉斯山等其它山區可見。生長喜好有日照的裸生地，比如南湖圈谷碎石坡。花色：淡紅紫或淡粉紅。花期：7月至8月。花瓣 ：四枚。