生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Scandent evergreen shrubs with long, slender branchlets, hairy when young, later glabrous.
• Leaves alternate, chartaceous, oblong to long-ovate, 6–10 cm long, 2.5–5 cm wide, acute at apex, cordate or rounded at base, entire or obscurely serrulate, midrib concave above, prominent beneath, lateral veins 5–7 pairs; petioles 0.5–1 cm long.
• Male spikes cylindric, solitary or 2–4 together, light green; peduncles thin, patently pubescent; Male-perianth 3-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, stamens 3. FeMale heads 3–5 in fascicles or short racemes, densely pubescent; bracts very numerous, crowded; perianth glabrous, 1–1.5 mm long, with a narrow mouth, strongly enlarged later.
• Achenes oval to oblong, 0.6–0.7 cm long, bright red, sessile, receptacle 1–2 cm long; seed 1.

分布

• 台灣 : In thickets at low altitudes throughout the island, especially on Mt. Tsai (Wansuoshan) of Kaohsiung City.
• 世界 : S China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indochina and Australia.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Shilin, Odashima 17783; Kwangyinshan, Kuo 6086; Yangmingshan, Matuda 699. HSINCHU: Shienchiaosu, Hosokawa 39286. TAICHUNG: Meiyuen, Saito s. n.; Takung, Lu & Lai 6411; Kukuang, Lin s. n. KAOHSIUNG: Chishan, Huang 2426. PINGTUNG: Kengtin, Lu & Ou 1094; Oluangpi, Chuang 2242; Nanjenshan, Liu 1297. TAITUNG: Chipen, Matuda 700.

引用文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 191. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)