生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Evergreen trees; bark blackish-brown, with aromatic odor; buds sericeous; young branchlets 4-angular, gray with white dots.
• Leaves opposite, ovate to ovate-elliptic, coriaceous, 11-16 cm long, 4.5-5.5 cm wide, short acuminate at apex, obtuse at base, green, lustrous above, pale-greenish-white beneath, glabrous on both sides, with 3 main veins, midrib and lateral veins prominent on both sides; petioles 2 cm long, glabrous.
• Inflorescences paniculate, axillary or terminal, 10-12 cm long; peduncles and pedicels sericeous; flowers yellow, 6 mm long; tepals 6, elliptic, sericeous outside; fertile stamens 9, filaments hairy at base, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, anthers 4-celled, introrse, 3rd whorl of stamens with 2 glands, anthers extrorse; ovary ovate, glabrous, the style short, stigma disc-like.
• Fruit ovate-globose, 1-1.5 cm long, black.

分布

• 世界 : Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Cultived in tropical Asia, particularly in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kwangtung, China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei Botanical Garden, Liao 12146. (cult.)

引用文獻

• LlAO, JIH CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 448. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)