生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A pseudo-epiphytic shrub.
• Leaves freshy coriaceous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 8–22 cm long, 2–7 cm broad, acuminate or caudate at apex, cuneate at base, nearly entire, the lateral veins obscure, about 10–15 per side, green above, pale green below surface; petioles 1–3 cm long.
• Flowers in terminal panicles 4–7 cm long; calyx about 0.2 cm long; corolla about 0.7 cm long; stigma persistent; ovary 2-carpellate.
• Capsule globose, 1 cm long, 5–7 mm broad; 2-valved, the valves coriaceous. Seeds 10–l5, angular, compressed, about 1.5–33 mm long and 1.5–3 mm broad, red.

分布

• 台灣 : In broad-leaved forests at high altitudes (1,100–2,300 m ), in the central and western parts.

引證標本

ILAN: Chiliehting, Huang 7697. NANTOU: Sanlinchi, Huang 10000. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Huang 9957.

引用文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN and HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 65. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)