生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• A shrub to 10 m more or less scandent.
• Leaves chartaceous, oblong, variable in size, mostly 6–12 cm long, 3 .5–5 cm broad, obtusely caudate, rounded or obtuse at base, serrate along the margins, green and glabrous above, very slightly paler beneath and slightly pubescent in the vein axils, the midrib impressed above, raised beneath, the lateral veins subconspicuous above, slender and raised beneath, 6–7 per side, petioles about 2 cm long.
• Inflorescences in axillary clusters; flowers unisexual, pentamerous; pedicels 1–2 mm long, pubescent, soon glabrous.
• Fruit a drupe, globose, 6 mm thick, dull red, soon becoming black; pedicels 3–4 mm long.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests and thickets to 1,000 m, common especially in the south.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Suzuki s. n. 1927*. HSINCHU: Chienshih, Yang 3278. TAICHUNG: Wushihkan to Anmashan, Liu et al. 356. NANTOU: Mingchien, Wu 9972. CHIAYI: Fenchihu, Chang 6073. KAOHSIUNG: Tenchih, Tateishi et al. 13060. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Wang 10099. TAITUNG: Chihpen, Tateishi et al. 15446. HUALIEN: Tailuko to Hsipan, Tateishi et al. 16178.

參考文獻

• LIU, YEH-CHING, LU,FU-YUEN, OU, CHERN-HSIUNG and WANG, CHIOU-MEEI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 688. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)