生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Evergreen trees to 14 m high, trunk 0.5 m across; branches grayish; branchlets black-gray; winter buds sparsely short-hairy outside.
• Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 5.5–10.5 cm long, 1.5–4 cm broad, coriaceous, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base, margins usually dentate to serrate from middle to tip, rarely wavy, midrib prominent on both sides, lateral veins 6–7 pairs, indistinct; petioles 1.7–2.9 cm long, corpulent at base.
• Staminate flowers unknown; pistillate flowers usually 3-clustered.
• Cupules dish-shaped, 0.6–0.8 cm long, 1.5–1.6 cm across, sessile, scales broadly triangular, imbricate, hairy outside;nuts ellipsoid, compressed-globose to obovoid, 1.7–1.8 cm long, 1.4–1.5 cm across.
• Usually in association with Podocarpus nagi, P. macrophyllus var. maki, Magnolia kachirachirai, Litsea acutivena, Cyclobalanopsis hypophaea, Limlia uraiana, Pasania shinsuiensis, Cyclobalanopsis longinux var. kuoi, C. pachyloma, C. longinux var. lativiolacifolia, Rhus succedanea, Engelhardtia roxburghiana, etc.

物候

fruit maturing from December to January.

分布

• 台灣 : Taiwan, in broad-leaved and coniferous forests at an altitude of about 700 m, in compartment 41, Chiaratuang, about 9 km west of Kuarun, Tawu.
• 世界 : Distributed in mainland China and Hong Kong.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Compartment 41, Chiaratuang, Kutzulun, Tawu, Liao 11385 & 11386.

參考文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 96. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)