生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Small evergreen creeping shrubs rooting freely from branches, branchlets dark brown or reddish-brown, puberulous.
• Leaves chartaceous, sparsely hispid on both sides, obovate-elliptic, 1.5–3 cm long, 0.7–1 cm wide, obtuse or subacute at apex, obtuse or acute at base, entire, with 3 main veins from base, lateral veins 3–5 pairs, prominent beneath; petioles 0.2–0.3 cm long, pubescent.
• Male and gall or feMale flowers mixed; Male flowers pedicellate, perianth lobes 3–5, linear, stamens 2–4; gall flowers sessile, ovary stipitate, smooth, obliquely globose, style lateral, short, stigma dilated and truncate; feMale flowers sessile, perianth lobes 4–6, linear, ovary sessile, smooth, globose, style lateral, longer, stigma acute.
• Receptacles nigrescent, solitary or paired, axillary, globose or ovoid. 0.6–1 cm across, hirsute; basal bracts 3–4, membranaceous, slightly pubescent; stalks sessile or very short, less than 0.1 cm long.

分布

• 台灣 : In thickets at low altitudes or exposed lands or rocks along the sea shores of Juisui (Hualien), Tulanshan (Taitung) and islands of Lanyu and Lutao.

引證標本

TAITUNG: Lanyu, Ho 300, Ho & Huang 125; Tulanshan, Liu & Lin 1713. HUALIEN: Chimei-Juisui, Liu & Lin 1904.

參考文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 186. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)