生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Scandent perennial deciduous herbaceous vines. Stem round, sulcate, sparsely velutinous when young, glabrous at maturity.
• Leaves pinnately compound, subcoriaceous; petioles tendril-like, 1.7-3.4 cm long; stipules absent. Leaflets 5-11, 2.0-5.3 cm long, 1.2-3.3 cm wide, ovate, cordate or oblong; apex obtuse-mucronulate; base truncate or cordate; unlobed, rarely 3-lobed; margin entire; glabrous on both surfaces; main veins 5, nerves flat or sunken on adaxial side; margin and nerves elevated on abaxial side; petiolulate.
• Inflorescences cymes, axillary; pedicels glabrous, trichotomously branched; bracts lanceolate, coriaceous, sparsely pubescent on adaxial side or glabrous on both sides. Flowers 1.2-2.8 cm diam. Sepals 4, white, spreading, 5-15 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, elliptic to oblong; apex acute-mucronulate; base cuneate; glabrous or nearly so inside, densely velutinous outside. Stamens numerous, 5-8 mm long, glabrous, centripetal; anthers narrowly elliptic or linear, dehiscence lateral, longitudinal; connective equal to or shortly excurrent beyond pollen sacs, 0.05 mm long; filaments linear, flat.
• Carpels numerous, white sericeous. Fruits 3.7-4.6 cm long; achenes 5-6 mm long, orbicular or broadly elliptic, compressed laterally, yellowish-brown, pale golden velutinous; style with pale yellow hairs.

分布

• 台灣 : Local in coastal areas of southern Taiwan, especially among rocks.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Kaohsiung, Matuda s. n. 1915. PINGTUNG: Maopitou, Yang 300; Ooluanpi, Kawakami 1620 (Holotype of C. garanbiensis, TI!).

引用文獻

• YANG, T. Y. ALECK and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 541. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)