形態特徵

• A small tree or shrub; the young branchlets and inflorescences brownish tomentose.
• Leaves palmately lobed to 1/2 the length, orbicular in outline, 20–35 cm across, the lobes 5–7, ovate-oblong, acute, remotely serrate; petioles terete, as long as the leaves.
• Flowers in umbels, these arranged in terminal panicles; bracts large, densely brownish tomentose; pedicels articulate below the calyx, pubescent; calyx campanulate, the margins truncate or shallowly toothed; petals 5, elliptic, acute, about 3.5 mm long and 2 mm broad; stamens 5, the filaments about 5 mm long.
• Fruit globose, 3–4 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : Endemic. In moist shady forests at high altitudes (2,000–2,800 m).

引證標本

TAIPEI: Keng & Kao s. n. 1953. ILAN: Suyuan, Chuang 2460*. TAICHUNG: Suzuki 19709; Anmashan, Liu et al. s. n. 1957. CHIAYI: Alishan, Chen 4909. Mt. Morrison, Kawakami & Mori 1568. KAOHSIUNG: Tenchi, Ohashi et al. 24204. HUALIEN: Tantashan, Price 1076; Tienhsiang, Shimizu 10505*.

引用文獻

• OHASHI, HIROYOSHI, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 3: 996. 1993.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)