生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub or tree;branchlet grayish or brownish, glabrous or scattered lepidote when young.
• Leaves densely lepidote with scales when young, elliptic-ovate, 4–8 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm broad, entire, acute or obtuse at apex, acute or acuminate at base; midribs and 6–7 pairs of lateral veins impressed above, raised beneath.
• Capsule 1 to 3 in each inflorescence, subglobose, 6–9 mm long, entirely enclosed in the brownish hairy lepidote receptacle tube. Seeds whitish.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, in central part of the island.
• 世界 : Southern China, the Philippines, Celebes and New Guinea.

引證標本

NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Yu et al. s. n. in 1955.

參考文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN and HSIEH, CHANG-FU, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 2. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)