生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, 1–2 m tall; branches and branchlets glabrous or sparsely pubescent.
• Leaves subcoriaceous or chartaceous, oblong, narrowly oblong, ovate, lanceolate, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, 6.5–16 cm long, 2.5–6 cm broad; base cuneate mostly, rarely obtuse, apex caudate-acuminate; upper surface glabrous, lower surface short pubescent on nerves; secondary veins (4)5–8(9) pairs, veinlets subparallel, forked or rarely reticulate; stipules narrowly deltate, ca. 2 mm long, pubescent, caducous in age; petioles 5–12 mm long, short pubescent.
• Flowers sessile, ebracteate, clustered in axillary heads. Calyx campanulate, ca. 2 mm long, sparsely pubescent outside, lobes 4–6, ca. 1 mm long. Corolla salverform, ca. 6 mm long, white or light pink-purple, upper 1/2 of tube pubescent inside, glabrate outside, lobes 4–6. Stamens 5, filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm long. Style filiform, ca. 8 mm long, stigma 5-lobed, white or purple.
• Drupes globose, 4–6 mm in diam., blue. Seeds 5.

分布

• 台灣 : common from lowlands to mid elevations.
• 世界 : Japan, the Ryukyu, southern China, and the Philippines.

引證標本

ILAN: Fushan, Boufford et al. 25164; Nanao, Chen et al. 678. TAIPEI: Sanhsia, Wang et al. 479; Wulai, Leu & Chen 1274. TAOYUAN: Hsiaowulai, Lu 17347. MIAOLI: Taan, Kuo & Kao 471. TAICHUNG: Shanchiaoshan, Shen et al. 228; Tahsuehshan, Chang 5767. NANTOU: Lienhuachih, Chao 872; Peitungyenshan, Yen 7268. CHIAYI: Chiaolip'ing, Chang 6086. TAINAN: Tatungshan, Huang & Huang 16001. KAOHSIUNG: Nanfengshan, Chao 770; Shanping, Chao 796. PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Lu 17205; Tona, Lu 18947. TAITUNG: Chinshuiying, Chung & Kao 3441; Tawu, Chuang & Chao 1996. HUALIEN: Fenshuilunshan, Chen et al. 350; Hsinkangshan, Lu 19372.

引用文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 284. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)