生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A small prostrate subshrub; stems rather slender, creeping, rooting on the nodes, pubescent, more or less densely prickly especially when young, the prickles recurved, up to 2 mm long.
• Leaves simple, chartaceous, orbicular or reniform, the larger ones slightly 3-lobed, 3–4 cm across, the apex rounded, the base cordate, the margins denticulate, pilose on both surfaces, the veins prickly beneath; petioles up to 7 cm long, pubescent, with few to many prickles; stipules up to 6 mm long and 7 mm wide, deeply laciniate, the lobes linear.
• Flowers usually solitary or sometimes 2–3-Flowered in the axils of the bracteoles or the uppermost Leaves; pedicels up to 3 mm long, pubescent and prickly; calyx globose, outside with hairs and in lower part also with dense prickles, calyx-lobes 6–10 mm long, slightly unequal, the margins lacerate; petals elliptic, 6–8 mm long, white, glabrous, the apex rounded; ovary about 1 mm long, glabrous, rarely with few hairs, the style about 3 mm long. glabrous.
• Fruits orange.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, common in forests at altitudes from 700 m to 2,500 m.
• 世界 : Japan, southeastern China, the Philippines.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yangmingshan to Chishingshan, Hsu 31170. ILAN: Nanhutashan, Kao 1504; Taipingshan, Suzuki s. n. 1929. TAOYUAN: Chatienshan, Kawakami & Mori s. n. 1909. HSINCHU: Kwanwu (Chutong Logging Station), Huang 4725. TAICHUNG: Chunghsuehshan to Anmashan, J

參考文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 69. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)