生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Scandent shrubs; young branches and buds covered with silvery-brown scales.
• Leaves coriaceous, slightly revolute, broadly elliptic to elliptic, 6–12 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, acute at the apex, acute to obtuse at the base, the lateral veins 5–6 pairs; petioles 0.8–1.3 cm long.
• Flowers silvery brown, solitary on the long branches and in a shortened raceme on the short branches; perianth-tube 6–6.5 mm long, the lobes 4, triangularly ovate, 3–3.5 mm long; stamens 4, the anthers elliptic, 1.4–1.5 mm long, the filaments 0.8 mm long; style 5–6 mm long, glabrous, the stigma glandular-papillate.
• Fruit broadly elliptic to elliptic, 1.6–1.8 cm long, red; seed about 1.6 cm long.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic. In the thickets of the central mountains at the altitudes ranging from 700 to 2,000 m.

引證標本

ILAN: Taipingshan, Hayata s. n. (Type of E. grandifolia Hayata). NANTOU: Tungpu to Kuankao, Lu 24004. TAITUNG: Wulu, Lu 23999. HUALIEN: Lanshan, Lu 13050.

參考文獻

• LU, SHENG YOU and YANG, YUEN PO, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 780. .  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)