生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs ca. 2 m tall.
• Leaves subcoriaceous, brownish or pale yellow, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 9–15 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base acuminate or obtuse, margin entire, lateral veins 12–13 pairs, parallel to margin and curved at ends, silky hairs below, petiole 1–1.5 cm long.
• Flowers white; calyx 1.5–5 mm long; corolla tube 1.3–1.8 mm long, lobes 4–6 mm long, 6 mm wide; pedicels 1–1.5 cm long.
• Follicles lunate, long caudate at apex, over 2 cm long, 1 cm in diam., pedicel 1 mm long, peduncle 3 cm long; seeds 6 mm long, 3 mm wide.
• This species is very similar to the commonly cultivated T. divaricata (L.) R. Br. ex Roem & Schultes, but the former differs by its numerous primary lateral veins and pubescent inner surface of the calyx.

分布

• 台灣 : naturalized and scattered in forests at low altitudes in the south Taiwan.
• 世界 : Micronesia to the Philippines.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Hengchun, Huang 10065*, 10323.

參考文獻

• LI, Huei-Lin and HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 210. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)