生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Small evergreen shrubs. Stems and branchlets pubescent to glabrescent.
• Leaves thick chartaceous, short petiolate, oblong, 10–15 mm long, 3–7 mm broad, apex acute to obtuse, base acute, margin serrate, teeth slightly arcuate, glabrous, midrib and veins impressed to indistinct on upper surface, slightly raised to obscure on lower surface, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs, inconspicuous; petiole scarcely 1 mm long.
• Flowers in pseudo-terminal racemes, ca. 2 cm long; pedicel 2–3 mm long; bracts usually 2, ovate, ca. 2 mm long, acute, pubescent, persistent; calyx lobes ovate; corolla white, ovoid-tubular, 4–5 mm long, lobes minute; ovary pubescent.
• Berry globose, white, ca. 6 mm across.

分布

• 台灣 : central ranges on open mountain peaks from 2,250 to 3,600 m or higher.
• 世界 : The Philippines.

引證標本

ILAN: Chilanshan, Shih 317. MIAOLI: Tapachienshan, Liou 140. TAICHUNG: Hsuehshan, Lu 19953. NANTOU: Luantashan, Kawakami & Hayata s. n. in 1908. CHIAYI: Mt. Alishan, Keng 1154; Yushan, Mori 1887. KAOHSIUNG: Takuanshan, Liou 397. PINGTUNG: Peitawushan, Wang 9138. TAITUNG: Yako, Chiang 644. HUALIEN: Nengkaoshan, Bartlett 6213; Tayulien, Yu 11.

引用文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 18. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)