生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs to 1–3 m tall, many branched; young branches slender, glandular setose.
• Leaves thinly coriaceous, ovate, 2.5–5. cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm broad, apex short acuminate, often mucronate, base rounded to subcuneate, lustrous dark green and villous on midrib on upper surface; petiole 0.5–1 cm long, villous when young.
• Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicel 1–2.5 cm long, densely glandular setose; calyx membranaceous, deeply 5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, 4–6 mm long, 2–4 mm broad, glandular ciliate; corolla pink to rose with few dark spots on lower part, 2.5–3.5 cm across, deeply 5-lobed, lobes widely spreading, rounded; stamens 5, filaments villous toward base; ovary glandular, style exserted, glabrous.
• Capsules subglobose, 5–6 mm long and broad, glandular.

分布

• 台灣 : known only from the central and northern mountain ranges.
• 世界 : Eastern China.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Wulinglungchang, Lu 15639; Chingshan, Lu 12429.

引用文獻

• LI, Hui-Lin, LU, Sheng-You, YANG, Yuen-Po and TSENG, Yen-Hsueh, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 29. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)