生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs or trees, 2-8 m tall. Young branchlets 1.5-3 mm in diam.
• Leaves alternate or clustered at apex and nodes of branchlets; petioles 7-20 mm long; lamina narrowly obovate, narrowly oblong-elliptic or elliptic, 4-12 cm long, 1.5-4 cm broad, coriaceous, base attenuate, margin slightly recurved, apex acute to gradually acuminate, costa raised on upper surface, 2-2.5 mm wide, prominent beneath, secondary nerves 4-7 per side, prominent or obscure on both surfaces.
• Flower buds ovoid; flowers axillary or congested toward apex of branchlets; pedicel 5-25 mm long. Perianth segments 15-24, whitish or yellowish, elliptic, obovate-oblong, narrowly oblong or lingulate, flat, thin-carnose. Stamens 16-25, usually in 2-series, connective slightly emarginate to obtuse-cuspidate. Carpels 7-9(-10), 3.5-5 mm long; stigma 2-3.3 mm long.
• Fruit 2.5-3 cm in diam.; pedicel 10-25 mm long, 1.5-2 mm in diam.; follicles 7-8, apex rostrate, rostrum 2-4 mm long.Seeds yellowish, 6-7 mm long.;
• Chromosome number n =14.

物候

Fl. Dec.-Mar., fr. July-Oct.

分布

• 台灣 : wet, evergreen, broad-leaved forests in mountains at 1,000-2,500 m.
• 世界 : Eastern Asia, from Japan, south Korea, the Ryukyus and Taiwan to the Philippines.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Keng s. n. ILAN: Tayenshan, Kao 3232; Taipingshan, Chuang & Kao 4094, Feung & Kao 5070; Dulishan, Tamura & Shimizu 21329. TAOYUAN: Tamanshan, Yang 1259. HSINCHU: Yuan-yang Lake, Huang & Yang 10734, Wood & Boufford 3832; Chilanshan, Chen 151. TAICHUNG: Ammashan, Liu 188; Pashienshan, Huang 1251. NANTOU: Mt. Randaisan, Hayata & Mori s. n. (Photo of Isotype of Illicium randaiense Hayata, A). CHIAYI: Mingetsu, Wilson 10857; Alishan, Ito 529. PINGTUNG: Tawushan, Chang 3340. HUALIEN: Mt. Maibarsan, Price 750; Chingshuishan, Shimizu & Kao 11873.

引用文獻

• LIN, QI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 427. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)