生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Small Trees; the young branchlets densely covered with soft hairs becoming glabrescent with age.
• Leaves membranaceous, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 6–11 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, apex acuminate or caudate, base obtuse or rounded, margins finely serrate, glabrous above, densely pilose beneath, midrib sulcated, hirsute above, veins in 9–11 pairs, slightly elevated on both surfaces; petioles 2–4 mm long.
• Flowers axillary; pedicels short or sessile, drooping; sepals 5, subequal, lanceolate, inner ones 8–13 mm long, silky-hairy outside; petals 5–7, subequal, obovate or rounded, 12–16 mm long, 8–14 mm wide, silky-hairy outside; stamens numerous, monadelphous, free portion haired, anther triangular at the apex, densely pubescent; styles 12 mm long, densely pubescent, the apex 3-fid.

分布

• 台灣 : in the central part of the island at low and medium altitudes.
• 世界 : S & SE China and Hongkong.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Tashuehshan, Kuo & Kao 487. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Kao 7156; Meiyuanshan, Kao 6658. CHIAYI: Alishan, Mori s. n. 1914.

引用文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 672. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)