生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Large, evergreen, scandent shrubs trailing on trunks of trees or rocks, branches reddish-brown, puberulous.
• Leaves alternate, coriaceous, oblong to broadly lanceolate, 6–15 cm long, 4–6 cm wide, subacuminate or acute at apex, obtuse at base, entire, glabrous and shining above, hirsute beneath, with 3 main veins from base, primary lateral veins 6–7 pairs, prominent and densely brown-hairy beneath; petioles pubescent, 1–1.5 cm long; stipules membranaceous, brown-hairy, linear-lanceolate, ca. 1 cm long, fugaceous.
• Male and gall or feMale flowers mixed; Male flowers many, near tip of receptacle, long-pedicellate, perianth lobes 4, linear-lanceolate, stamens 2, filaments very short or anthers nearly sessile; gall flowers long-pedicellate, perianth lobes 4–5, linear, ovary sessile, globose, smooth, style lateral, rather short, stigma dilated; feMale flowers long-pedicellate or sessile, perianth lobes 3–4, lanceolate, ovary oblong or ellipsoid, smooth, style lateral, long, stigma tapering.
• Receptacles dark green with white dots, blackish at maturity, solitary or paired, axillary, elliptic-obovoid or subpyriform, 6–10.5 cm long, 3–5 cm across; basal bracts 3, membranaceous, brown, pubescent; stalks stout, pubescent, 0.5–1 cm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Rather common at altitudes of 1,200–1,900 m in the central mountains; commonly cultivated.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wulai, Fukuyama 10478; Hsintien, Shimizu 2160. ILAN: Suchi, Suzuki 4970. HSINCHU: Shaingpin, Chitung, Shimada 2837B. MIAOLI: Nanchuang, Shimada 7803. NANTOU: Lushan, Wushe, Liao 211686; Hoshe, Liao 6. 60. CHIAYI: Sutsuru, Alishan, Sata 180; Alishan, Sata 37892. KAOHSIUNG: Shihshan, Huang 6553; Chishan, Suzuki 20893. PENGHU: Pengfu, Sasaki 7804.

參考文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 174. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)