生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Scandent shrubs; branchlets rufous glandular-granulose and papillate, glabrescent.
• Leaves chartaceous, ovate, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate, 5–10 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, punctate, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded, obtuse, broadly cuneate, or acute, margins subentire to serrulate, glabrous above, slightly glandular-granulose and glabrescent below, reticulate veins between lateral veins and near midrib inconspicuous and not elevated; petioles margined toward blade, glandular-granulose, 4–10 mm long.
• Inflorescences racemose, 0.5–5 cm long, glandular-papillate. Flowers greenish; calyx lobes triangular, ovate to oblong-ovate, punctate, base papillate outside, margin erose, papillate-ciliate; petals oblong or spatulate, glabrous outside, densely brown papillate at centermost part and toward base inside, margin slightly erose, punctate; stamens conspicuously exserted, filaments glabrous, anthers not punctate; petioles 3–5 mm long, glandular-granulose.
• Chen and Pipoly (1996) treated this species as conspecific with Embelia vestita Roxb. Compared with the line drawing of E. vestita in Mez's publication (1902), E. lenticellata differs by having the petals densely papillate inside and the stamens shorter t

分布

• 台灣 : in forests from middle to high elevations.
• 世界 : Bhutan, India, Nepal, Vietnam and China.

引證標本

MIAOLI: Hsuechien, Huang & Huang 15377; Tiengo, Huang & Huang 13265. TAICHUNG: Anmashan, Chuang 131. NANTOU: Tungpu, Hsieh et al. s. n. 1982. KAOHSIUNG: Liukuei, Chao 737. PINGTUNG: Santimen, Sasaki 1936.

引用文獻

• YANG, Yuen-Po and LU, Sheng-You, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 48. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)