生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrubs, 1–1.5 m tall; internode glabrate, hirsute near node.
• Leaves coriaceous, subcoriaceous or chartaceous, obdeltate, oblong or narrowly oblong, 9–15 cm long, 3–5.2 cm broad; base cuneate, apex acuminate; upper surface glabrous, lower surface short brown pubescent; secondary veins 6–8-(9)-pairs, veinlets mostly subparallel; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 2–3 mm wide at base, 7–8 mm long, densely hirsute, caducous in age; petiole 5–10 mm long, densely pubescent, slightly grooved above.
• Flowers sessile, ebracteate, 4–6 flowers in axillary heads. Calyx sessile, campanulate, ca. 3.5 mm long, pubescent outside; lobes 4, or rarely 5, ca. 0.5 mm long. Corolla salverform, ca. 10 mm long, white, upper 1/2 of tube pubescent inside, pubescent outside, lobes 4. Stamens 4, filaments ca. 0.9 mm long, anthers oblong, 1.5 mm long. Style filiform, ca. 7 mm long, stigma 4-branched.
• Drupes ellipsoid, ca. 10 mm in diam., blackish purple, pubescent. Seeds 4.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests on the Hengchun Peninsula and in the southeastern part of the island.
• 世界 : The Philippine, Malay Peninsula and Java.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Kenting, Lu 18545; Nanjenshan, Li 454. TAITUNG: Hungtoushan, Li 375; Lanyu, Li 348. HUALIEN: Hsinkangshan, Lu 19351.

引用文獻

• LIU, Ho-Yih, YANG, T. Y. Aleck, LI, Sung-Po and LI, Hen-Jung, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 4: 287. 1998.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)