生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs 2 m tall.
• Leaves membranaceous, pale green, lanceolate, 9–14 cm long, 3.5–6.5 cm wide, apex rounded of bluntly acute, base acute, margins entire, lateral veins 10–17 pairs, parallel to margin, prominent above and below, glabrous, petiole 0.8–2 cm long.
• Flowers pale-yellow; pedicels 0.5 cm long; calyx glabrous, lobes ovate, apex acuminate, 2–3 mm long; corolla tube cylindric, 5–12 mm long, corolla lobes glabrous, acute at apex, 0.5–0.7 cm long; stamens attached below throat; gynoecium nearly as long as anthers, stigma long caudate.
• Follicles ellipsoid, oil gland-dotted, 2.7 cm long, 1.2–1.7 cm in diam., 0.7–0.9 cm thick, peduncles 1.5–2.5 cm long; seeds smooth, longitudinally grooved, 1.5 cm long, 1.1 cm broad.

分布

• 台灣 : growing in thickets at about 100 m on Lanyu Island.
• 世界 : The Philippines.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Lanyu, Huang 9174*, 9236*, 10356*.

參考文獻

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