生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Evergreen trees; trunk straight, to 30 m tall, 2 m across; bark brown, fissured; branchlets glabrous, brownish; buds ovoid, 6 mm long, 5 mm across, scales yellowish pubescent outside; young Leaves bright green to brown when sprouting.
• Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, margins often wavy, broadly ovate, ovate to elliptic, polished, 10-15 cm long, 4-7.5 cm wide, green and glabrous on both sides, usually with 0-3 or often 5 main veins, rarely with pinnate veins, lateral veins 2-3 pairs, short acute at apex, obtuse-rounded at base; petioles 1.4-3 cm long, grooved above.
• Inflorescences cymes, terminal; bracts of flowers pubescent outside, 2-3 mm across; perianth 6, pale-yellow, oblong, 2 mm long, tomentose at base inside, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens 0.5 mm long, anthers 4-celled, eglandular, introrse, 3rd whorl of stamens with glands, anthers 4-celled, extrorse,
• Berry compressed-obconic or globose, l.2-1.3 cm long, l.2-1.5 cm across, green to blackish-violet, slightly pubescent to glabrous;seeds globose, 1 cm across, rounded on both sides.

物候

flowering Nov. to December.; Fruiting Sept. to October.

分布

• 台灣 : at 200-2,000 m, mixed with C. micranthum in broad-leaved forests throughout the island.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Forest nursery, Taiwan Univ. cult., Liao l3511; Hsiaokuotou, Pinli, Lu s. n. HUALIEN: Mt. Shinkang, Fuli, Huang s. n.

引用文獻

• LlAO, JIH CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 443. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)