生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Scandent or sometimes erect shrubs; young branches and buds silvery-brown.
• Leaves coriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 4–11 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, the mid-rib flat or slightly elevated; petoles 0.5–1 cm long.
• Flowers white, solitary or 2–6 in a shortened raceme; perianth-tube 2.8–6 mm long, the lobes triangularly ovate; stamens 4, the anthers elliptic, 1.5–2 mm long, the filaments 0.6-0.7 mm long; style 2.2–5.5 mm long, glabrous, the stigma 2.3–2.5 mm long.
• Fruit ovoid, 1.1–1.6 cm long; seed 8-ribbed, 1–1.4 cm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic. In the thickets throughout the island, and the islets Lanyu and Lutao at low to 2,000 m altitudes.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Yenliao, Lu 16397; Chihsinshan, Lu 13152. ILAN: Taipingshan, Lu 2746. TAOYUAN: Lalashan, Lu 14147. TAICHUNG: Chingshan, Lu 19089. NANTOU: Nenkaoshan, Kanehira & Sasaki s. n. (Type of E. nokoensis Hayata). PINGTUNG: Hengchung, Lu 12497. TAITUNG: Lanyu Lu 6107. HUALIEN: Hoping, Lu 16310; Fuli, Lu 17825.

引用文獻

• LU, SHENG YOU and YANG, YUEN PO, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 780. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)