Amischophacelus axillaris (L.) Sweet, Rolla Rao et Kammathy, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 59: 306, 1966; D. Y. Hong, Acta
Phytotax. Sin. 12 (4): 478, 1974; D. Y. Hong et al., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13 (3): 120. pl. 30. 1997.
Commelina axillaris L., Sp. Pl. 42, 1753.
Tradescantia axillaris (L.) L., Syst. Veg. Ed. 13, 260, 1774.
Zygomenes axillaris (L.) Salisb. In Trans. Hort. Soc. London, 1:271, 1812.
Annual or perennial spreading herbs. Roots fibrous. Stem creeping, branched, rooting at nodes, glabrous. Leaves sessile; blades linear to lanceolate, 2-8 cm long, 0.2-0.4 cm wide, apex acuminate, glabrous; sheath cylindrical, ca. 0.8 cm long, ciliate at mouth. Inflorescence axillary, consisting of 1-3 cincinni, enclosed in leaf-sheath, bracteoles almost hidden. Flower bisexual, actinomorphic; sepals 3, green, equal, ca. 8.5 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, one glabrous, the others puberulent at ridge, apex free, united below; petals 3, blue or pink, apex free, united below, ca. 12 mm long; stamens 6, equal, anthers trapezoidal, ca. 1 mm long; filaments ca 12 mm long, inflated at tip, densely barbate above the middle; ovary ellipsoid, 3-angled, ca. 2.2 mm long, ca. 1 mm across, apex hispid; style inflated at tip, ca. 10 mm long, glabrous. Capsules trilocular, 3-valved, with a notched tip, ellipsoid, ca. 3.5 mm long, locules 2-seeded, apex hispid. Seeds uniseriate, trapezoidal in outline, lustrous, ca 1.6 mm long, ca 1 mm across, deeply pitted, embryotega apical, hilum punctiform.
Kaohsiung: Taiju (Tashu), Sukemoto 63 (TAI).
Eastern Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Indo-China Peninsula, China (Hongkong, Hainan), Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia. Taiwan, at low altitudes. Flowering in May.(just record from specimens).
依據國外文獻 (Cook, 1996) 本種植物在台灣僅有一次採集記錄，即Sukemoto於1934年採自高雄鳳山郡大樹庄，之後就沒有記錄了。本種植物一般生長在沼澤、溼地、稻田或灌溉的溝渠，也常見於海岸地區，Faden依據分布情形，認為台灣可能也存在此分類群 (pers. comm.)。
此分類群植株不具基生葉，聚繖花序花梗短縮，聚集成頭狀著生於葉腋，花冠長，蒴果三裂，每一瓣先端有V字型凹陷，種子表面有許多深的窩孔，營養器官和Cy. arachnoidea類似，但葉顯然較狹窄，植株近光滑，不被有蛛絲毛。
Phenology: perennial herbs, evergreen
Roors form: roots fibrous
Stems form: monomorphic stem
Monomorphic stems habit: procumbent
Rooting at nodes or not: rooting at nodes
Lateral shoots: perforating
Phyllotaxis: spiral phyllotaxis
Leaves: petiole: sessile
Leaves: shape (if dimorphic leaves, selected by rosette leaves): lanceolate, linear
Leaves: apex: acuminate
Leaves: length (cm): 2-8
Leaves: width (cm): 0.2-0.4
Leaves indumentum: upper surface: glabrous
If upper surface glabrous, leaves indumentum: margin: glabrous
Prophyll: sheathing, apex acute
Inflorescence: take plance: axillary
Inflorescence: thyrse
Bracts: shape: absent
Corolla: actinomorphic: petal 3, base fused, equal
Flowers: bisexual
Sepals: sepal 3, equal
Sepals: color: greenish
Sepals: base: base fused
Sepals: shape: lanceolate
Sepals: indumentum: one glabrous, the others puberulent at ridge
Sepals: length (if dimorphic sepals, selected by anticous two) (mm): 8.5
Sepals: width (if dimorphic sepals, selected by anticous two) (mm): 4
Flowers: color: pink, purple, or blue
Petals: shape: connate below into a tube
Petals: length (mm): 12
Stamens form: monomorphic: fertile stamens 6
Ovarys: shape: ellipsoid
Ovarys: indumentum: apex hispid
Ovarys: length (mm): 2.2
Styles: indumentum: glabrous
Styles: length (mm): 10
Capsules: dehiscence: dehiscent
Capsules: shape: ellipsoid
Capsules: trilocular
Capsules: indumentum: apex hispid
Capsule locules seeds: number: 2
Capsules: length (mm): 3.5
Seeds: lengh (if dimorphic seeds, selected by dorsal one) (mm): 1.6
Seeds: width (if dimorphic seeds, selected by dorsal one) (mm): 1
