生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Deciduous dioecious vine-like shrubs; bark with fibers; branches and branchlets vine-like, brown, the young branchlets with fine hairs, with milky sap.
• Levaes alternate, papery, long-ovate to lanceolate, obliquely rounded to cordate at base, serrulate, green and scabrous above, pale-green with short hairs beneath, petiolate; stipules lanceolate, acute at apex, membranaceous, with 1 main vein, finely hairy, deciduous.
• Flowers axillary, pale green; staminate inflorescences long elliptic, many-Flowered, with bracteoles. Staminate Flowers 4-parted; stamens 4, filaments white, filiform, anthers 2, introrse, pollen white. Pistillate Flowers globose; calyx with short fine hairs; ovary 1, style filiform, red-violet.
• Fruit becoming globose, red.

物候

Flowering in spring.

分布

• 台灣 : At low altitudes.
• 世界 : S China and Japan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wulai Tanaka & Shimada 13557, Yamamoto 37610. HUALIEN: Tailuko, Onizuka 22022.

參考文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 140. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)