生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Small deciduous trees or large shrubs to 4 m high; bark glabrous, branches gray-white, with milky, glabrous, sparsely branched.
• Levaes obovoid to long-obovoid or lanceolate, 10–20 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, acute at apex, obtuse, rounded or rarely cordate at base, entire, glabrous or nearly so on both sides; petioles 1–4 cm long, glabrous.
• Flowers in spring, male Flowers with perianth-lobes 5–6, stamens 2–3; female Flowers with perianth lobes 3–5, ovary stalked, style short, reddish.
• Receptacles solitary, axillary, globose, 1–1.7 cm across, soft, violet-black at maturity; basal bracts 3, glabrous; stalks 1–2 cm long, glabrous.

分布

• 台灣 : In secondary forests near seashores and ponds on Lanyu and Lutao islands.
• 世界 : Japan, the Ryukyus and Korea.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Lanyu, Yang et al. 2913, Sasaki 38141; Lutao, Sasaki 38140.

引用文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 154. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)