生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A climbing shrub.
• Leaves membranaceous, ovate-oblong, 4–6 cm long, 2–3 cm broad, acute, obtuse to cuneate at base, entire to obscurely denticulate, glabrous on both surfaces, the lateral veins 5–6 per side, the veins and reticulations conspicuous; petioles 4–6 mm long, pubescent.
• Flowers 1 or 2, axillary, long pedicellate, the pedicels glabrous; sepals 5, oblong, about 2 mm long; petals 5 or 6, oblong, purple, about 5 x 2.5 mm; stamens slightly shorter than petals, the anthers globose.

分布

• 台灣 : At the edge of forests and thickets from medium to high altitudes (1,550–3,300 m), rather rare.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Suzuki 18161. TAICHUNG: Wilson 10035, Hayata s. n. 1914. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Hayata s. n. 1914.

參考文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 614. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)