生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Climbing shrubs to 8 m or more; branches reddish-brown, with pale oblong lenticels, young branchlets setose; pith large, lamellate, whitish or yellowish.
• Leaves chartaceous, mostly suborbicular, emarginate to short cuspidate, rounded to more or less cordate at base, 6-12 cm long and broad, minutely denticulate, upper surface puberulous, lower surface very pale, densely whitish stellate-tomentose, lateral veins 5-8 per side; petioles 3.5-7.5 cm long, densely pubescent.
• Inflorescences few-flowered cymes, from axils of fallen Leaves, pubescent; peduncles ca. 1.5 cm long; pedicels 1-2 cm long; bracts minute, linear; flowers orange-yellow, staminate slightly smaller; sepals 5, sometimes 3 or 4, ovate-oblong, 8-10 mm long, 6-8 mm broad; petals 5, broadly obovate, short clawed, rounded at apex, 1.4-1.5 cm long, 1-1.2 cm. broad; ovary subglobose, 6-7 mm across, densely brownish villose; styles linear, 5-6 mm long.
• Fruit subglobose to ellipsoid, ca. 3 cm across, densely brownish hirsute.

分布

• 台灣 : in forests at medium to high altitudes

引證標本

ILAN: 710 forest road, Wagner 6560. HSINCHU: Kuanwu, Peng 14939. TAICHUNG: Lileng forest road, Shen 614. NANTOU: Tienchih, Liao 1378. HUALIEN: Halun, Peng 7280.

引用文獻

• PENG, JEN-JYE and LU, FU-YUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 659. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)