生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Evergreen tree, to 20 m or more high, 1 m in diameter; bark smooth, grayish brown.
• Leaves coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate or oblong, 6-12 cm long, 2-3.5 cm broad, deep green above, glaucescent beneath, apex acute or obtuse, base attenuate or cuneate, margins entire; lateral veins 7-8 pairs; pertioles 1-2 cm long, pubescent.
• Flowers axillary; peduncles about 1 cm long; spathaceous bracts brown, tomentose; perianth lobes 9-12, pale yellow, with a red-purple center, oblanceolate, 1.5-2 cm long, about 0.5 cm broad, inner ones smaller; stamens 30-40, linear, 0.5 cm long; gynoecium ovoid, 0.5 cm long, short-pubescent, gynophore ca. 0.3 cm long; carpels 25-30 in a gynoecium, free; ovules several (6-8) in a carpel.
• Fruiting carpels 6-15, well-spaced or partly congested on an elongated torus; each carpel ovoid to subglobose, 1.5-2 cm long, lenticellate-dotted, dehiscing dorsally. Seeds 2-3 in a follicle, dark brown to black, subrounded or rather irregularly shaped.
• A rather valuable timber tree in Taiwan, the wood is used for building, furniture-making and other purposes.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests from low to medium (200-1,800 m) altitudes throughout the island.
• 世界 : From southern Japan(S. Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu), the Ryukyu Islands to Taiwan.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Wulai, Kao s. n. 1957; Taiwan Univ. campus, Huang 3299. ILAN: Is. Kueishan, Masamune & Suzuki 1919; Mt. Oobi, Masamune s. n. 1938. HSINCHU: Luchangtashan, Suzuki 20611. TAICHUNG: Anmashan, Liu et al. 328. NANTOU: Sun Moon Lake, Kudo & Sasaki 15333; Wushe, Masamune 2435. KAOHSIUNG: Shanping, Huang 5896; Chinanshan, Yamamoto & Mori 727. PINGTUNG: Haikou, Kuoh 13043; Kenting, Hsu 4165; Tawushan, Suzuki 9606. TAITUNG: Lanyu, Huang & Kao 5127. HUALIEN: Tailuko, Suzuki 9854.

參考文獻

• KENG, HSUAN, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 412. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)