生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• Small Trees or shrubs; branchlets ridged, glabrous.
• Leaves heavy coriaceous, orbicular-obovate or oblong-obovate, 3–5 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, emarginate, rounded, apex obtuse or retuse, base cuneate, glabrous, shining above, margins revolute, slightly crenate, midrib impressed above, veins obscure on both surfaces; petioles 3–4 mm long.
• Flowers axillary, solitary or 2–3 in fascicles; pedicels 3 mm long, bracteoles 2, semiorbicular, 1 mm long. Male flowers: sepals 5, rounded, 2–3 mm across, glabrous; petals 5, oblong, 4 mm long, 2 mm wide, emarginate; stamens ca. 10, filaments 1–1.5 mm long, glabrous, anthers mucronate-apiculate. Female flowers: ovary subconic, 1 mm long, glabrous; styles 2 mm long, 3-fid.
• Fruit ovate-globose, 4–5 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : confined to the windward slopes and ridge-crests of the southernmost Taiwan (Hengchung Peninsula).

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Cheng 13214, Lai 100.

參考文獻

• HSIEH, CHANG-FU, LING, LAI-KUAN and YANG, KUOH-CHENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 682. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)