生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Scandent shrubs; branchlets prickly, brownish-pubescent.
• Leaves opposite or partially alternate, obovate-elliptic to elliptic, 4–10 cm long, 2.5–6 cm broad, obtuse, sparsely to densely pubescent beneath.
• Inflorescences paniculate-cymous, axillary, densely flowered, brownish-pubescent. Flowers small, unisexual, yellowish-white; pedicels with 3 ovate bracteoles near apex; perianth tube of staminate flowers obconical, of pistillate flowers campanulate-urceolate; stamens 7–8; stigma lacerate.
• Fruits oblong-clavoid, 7–14 mm long, 4 mm wide, 5-ribbed, glandular between ribs, glands short-stalked, viscid.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets along the seashores and open forests at low altitudes in the south and east.
• 世界 : Nearly pantropical, Asia (Hainan, the Ryukyus, India, Malaysia and Indonesia), southern North America, Central America; South America, Africa, the Pacific Islands and Australia..

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Kaohsiung, Sasaki s. n. 1911. PINGTUNG: Lilungshan, Chen & Horng 3179; Shih-chung-shih, Chen & Horng 3731. TAITUNG: Taitung, Mori s. n. 1907; Taimali, Lu 24489. HUALIEN: Sasaki s. n. 1917.

引用文獻

• YANG, YUEN-PO and LU, SHENG-YOU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 322. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)