生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Climbing evergreen shrubs, brown-tomentose.
• Leaves thick, oblanceolate or oblong, 9-12 cm long, 3.5 cm broad, obtuse-acute at apex, cuneate at base, closely brown-pubescent beneath, entire, lateral veins 10-14 pairs; petioles 1 cm long.
• Flowers solitary or clustered, axillary or terminal, pale yellow, about 1.2-1.8 cm long; pedicel with 1 bracteole, brown-tomentose; sepals 3, deltoid, 5-7 mm long, 5-6 mm across, green, brown-tomentose, with prominently lines outside; petals 6, in 2 series, the outer 3 ovate, 2.1-2.4 cm long, 1.1-1.2 cm broad, valvate, pale yellow to golden, somewhat revolute, thicker, inner 3, 1.8-2.1 cm long, 7 mm broad, involute and concave, yellowish-golden to brown on upper part, pale reddish-violet to reddish-violet on lower part inside; stamens 240-288, linear, 15 mm long, anthers 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent, connectives rounded, violet; carpels 24-36, about 4 mm long; ovary with golden hairs, styles pale white, free; ovules 10.
• Fruit berry-like, aggregate, mostly globose, about 1.5 cm long, rusty-pubscent;seeds 4, hard, compressed.

分布

• 台灣 : .in broad-leaved forests at 300-1,100 m altitude.
• 世界 : South China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Aokeng, Kueishan, Liao & Chang 10914. TAICHUNG: Toukuoshan, Takeng, Liao 13473.

參考文獻

• LIAO, JIH-CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 416. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)