生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Large scandent evergreen shrub rooting freely from stems and branches, branches glabrous, reddish-brown or paler.
• Levaes coriaceous, elliptic to obovate, 2.5–6.5 cm long, 1.5–4.0 cm wide, glabrous, shining above, tessellate-punctate beneath, rounded or obtuse at apex, acute, cuneate or obtuse at base, with 3 main veins, entire, slightly revolute, lateral veins 3–4 pairs, prominent beneath; petioles scurfy, 0.5–1 cm long; stipules membranaceous, linear-lanceolate, 0.5–l cm long, glabrous, fugaceous.
• Male and gall or female and neuter Flowers mixed in one receptacle: male Flowers many, scattered, very long-pedicellate, perianth-lobes 2–3, stamen 1, filament longer; gall Flowers pedicellate or sessile, perianth-lobes 3–4, linear, ovary smooth, obliquely obovoid, style terminal or sublateral, stigma dilated and often bifid; female Flowers sessile, perianth lobes 3, linear, ovary smooth, oblong, style terminal or subterminal, slender, stigma tapering, often bifid, with one lobe longer.
• Receptacles reddish-brown, solitary, paired or fascicled, axillary or cauline, slightly pubescent, globose, 5–7 cm across, basal bracts 3–4, rather thin, stalks thick, short, pubescent, 0.6–1.2 cm long.

分布

• 台灣 : On the Hengchun Peninsula, Lanyu (Botel Tobago) and Lutao islands.
• 世界 : The Philippines, Indochina, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nicobar Isl., N. Borneo, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Indonesia.

引證標本

PINGTUNG: Nanjenshan, Liu 157; Laufushan, Hukuyama 6074; Kusukusu, Suzuki 6200. TAITUNG: Lanyu, Yang et al. 2947.

參考文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 148. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)