生活型

tree

形態特徵

• A small tree up to 5 m high, or perhapes higher; branchlet sericeous-pubescent or strigose.
• Leaves green to dark green above, glabrous or near so, whitish or grayish beneath, covered with white pubescence, oblong-elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 3.5–12 cm long, 1.5–4 cm broad, lateral veins 5–9 on each side; obtuse or acute at apex, acute or cuneate, more or less oblique at base; petiole 2–3 mm long, strigose; stipules triangular or lanceolate.
• Flowers in axillary clusters, 5–10 flowers per cluster; calyx-lobes 5–6, densely pubescent, unequal, biseriate. Staminate flowers: sepals spreading, yellow; stamens 3 (rarely 4), filaments connate into a column; pedicels 5–7 mm long. Pistillate flowers: style cylindrical, 0.5–1 mm long, 3-lobed at summit; ovary of 3–4 hirsute carpels; pedicels shorter, 1–2 mm long;
• Capsules depressed-globose, 5–7 mm across, pubescent, distinctly 3–4 lobed, pedicels up to 5 mm long. Seeds red, hemispheroid.

分布

• 台灣 : Throughout the island, at low and medium altitudes.
• 世界 : Japan, the Ryukyus, China and India.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Hsintien, Deng 409; Wulai, Deng 191. ILAN: Yuanshan, Lu 15557. NANTOU: Hsuishe, Deng 511; Sun-moon Lake, Deng 182. KAOHSIUNG: Shanpin, Chang 5257. PINGTUNG: Tungyuan, Chang 2536.

引用文獻

• HUANG, TSENG-CHIENG, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 476. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)