生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Climbing shrubs to 8 m long; plant all glabrous except ovary; branchlets grayish brown, 3-15 cm long, lenticels obvious; pith solid, yellowish white; branches dark brown.
• Leaves chartaceous, elliptic to obovate, 4-12 cm long, 3-6 cm broad, acuminate or apiculate at apex, broadly cuneate or rounded at base, finely apiculate-serrate, upper surface dark green, lower surface light green, lateral veins 6 or 7 per side; petioles 1.5-5.5 cm long, reddish or green.
• Inflorescences axillary cymes, usually solitary; peduncles 3-10 mm long; pedicels 5-12 mm long; flowers white; sepals 4 or 5, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 4-5 mm long, glabrous or tomentose on margins; petals 5, obovate 5-6 mm long; ovary elliptic, brownish, pubescent.
• Fruit ovate to ovate-oblong, 1-3 cm long, grayish green, glabrous, pale brown spots obvios.

分布

• 台灣 : in forests at low to medium altitudes.
• 世界 : S. China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Kang-gu, Keng & Kao 2904. NANTOU: Fenghuangshan, Peng 606. CHIAYI: Tatungshan, Wang 222. TAITUNG: Tajen hsiang, Wang et al. 8811. HUALIEN: Chohsi hsiang Huangma, Chiang 66.

引用文獻

• PENG, JEN-JYE and LU, FU-YUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 660. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)