生活型

parasit

形態特徵

• Young branchlets terete, densely light orange-tomentose, the stellate hairs sparsely deciduous at maturity.
• Leaves yellowish green, coriaceous, ovate to ovate-oblong, 5–6 cm long, 3–4 cm broad, apex obtuse, base obtuse to rounded; petioles 7–10 mm long, stellate hairs sparsely deciduous, nearly concolorous when mature.
• Flowers tomentose, red with green apex. Calyx obconical, tomentose; corolla tube cylindric-spatulate swollen from middle to base, 1.6–2.2 cm long, lobes 4, linear, 4–6 mm long, 1 mm broad, concave, reflexed at apex; anthers multilocular in two rows, 2.5–3.5 mm long, ovary obconical, glabrous; styles filiform, 2.6 mm long.
• fruits cylindrical, apex truncate.
• This species is characterized by its yellowish green, ovate to ovate-oblong leaves, nearly concolorous when mature; corella nearly glabrous, anthers multiloculate in two rows; fruits cylindrical with apex truncate

物候

flowering early spring to mid summer.;

分布

• 台灣 : Parasitic on <i>Camellia oleifera</i> Abel., <i>Machilus zuihoensis</i> Hayata, <i>Prunus mume</i> Sieb. & Zucc., <i>Symplocos cochinchinensis</i> (Lour.) Moore subsp. <i>laurina</i> (Retz.) Noot. etc. in warm areas as low altitude and southern Taiwan.

引證標本

NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Chiu et al. 2554 (Holotype & isotype, NMNS; isotype, HAST), 2086, 2859, Sun s. n. 1993. KAOHSIUNG: Takuanshan, Chiu et al. 1373. TAITUNG: Liyuan, Chiu et al. 2713.

引用文獻

• CHIU, SHAU-TIN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 282. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)