生活型

tree-shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub or small tree; glabrous, the branchlets slender.
• Leaves 8–15 cm long 1.5–2 cm broad, obtuse or short acuminate at apex, cuneate at base; the margins entire, shining above.
• Flowers white, fragrant, in dense terminal or axillary, sessile and glabrous corymbs; calyx 5-fid, about 1 mm long; petals 5, oblong; 10–12 mm long, erect below, spreading above, imbricate; stamens 10, unequal, glabrous; ovary 2-celled, each cell 1-ovuled.
• Fruit a globose or ovoid berry, 10–12 mm long, acute, red when ripe; seed 1–2, hairy.

分布

• 台灣 : widely distributed at low altitudes throughout the island; also commonly cultivated as a hedge plant.
• 世界 : Tropical Asia and Australia.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Taipei, Chen s. n. 1959*; Neihu, Huang 1565. PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Chang 2042. HUALIEN: Tailuko, Suzuki 10400.

參考文獻

• CHANG, CHING-EN and HARTLEY, TOM G., Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 526. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)