生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A low prostrate shrub, copiously branched; young branches and buds slightly pubescent.
• Leaves coriaceous, ovate, obovate to oblong-ovate, up to 1–2 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, rounded, emarginate or mucronate at apex, obtuse to cuneate at base, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent beneath, entire, revolute along the margins; petioles about 2 mm long, pubescent.
• Flowers solitary, calyx-lobed triangular-ovate; petals, broad-obovate, emarginate; ovary of 2 or 3 carpels.
• Fruits ellipsoid, red, 7–8 mm long, 6–8 mm wide.

分布

• 台灣 : High mountains at 2,500–3,500 m, in sunny grassland and on rock cliffs.

引證標本

NANTOU: Hohuanshan, Ying 1120*. CHIAYI: Yushan, Kawakami & Mori s. n. 1906. ILAN: Nanhutashan, Su 2207.

引用文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 73. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)