生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A low shrub to 2 m high; stems hirsute to glabrous, prickled, the prickles 3-branched, up to 1.3 cm long.
• Leaves 1-3 together at tips of short branchlets, membranaceous, broadly orbicular, about 1.5 cm across, rounded, truncate and subcordate at base, 3- or 5-lobed to about middle, coarsely few serrate on margins, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces, dark above, pale beneath; petioles 1–2 cm long, white-tomentose.
• Flowers solitary, axillary, the pedicels 1–1.5 cm long, with a pair of bracteoles at the middle; calyx-tube elongated, enlarged at base and enclosing the ovary, about 5 mm across, the lobes 5, about 1 cm long; petals 5, small, scale-like, about 4 mm long, attached to the throat of the calyx-tube; stamens 5; ovary 1-celled, many ovuled; styles 2.
• Berry globose, about 1 cm across, red, crowned with the persistent calyx.

分布

• 台灣 : In forests of high mountains.

引證標本

ILAN: Nanhutashan, Kao 5185*; Mt. Senmatseng, Huang 7780. HSINCHU: Tapachienshan, Fukuyama s. n. 1932. TAICHUNG: Chunghsuehshan, Kuo & Kao s. n. 1958; Hsuehshan, Huang 7161. NANTOU: Nengkao, Huang, Hsieh & Kao 5819; Patungkuan, Tamura, Shimizu & Kao 22065. CHIAYI: Tungpu, Chuang & Kao s. n. 1957. TAITUNG: Kuanshan, Sasaki s. n. 1933. HUALIEN: Tayuling, Hsu & Kuoh 7131; Mt. Hohuang, Ou & Kao s. n. 1978.

引用文獻

• KAO, MUH-TSUE, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 57. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)