生活型

vine

形態特徵

• Dioecious; glabrous throughout.
• Leaves chartaceous to membranous, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, 7.5-10 cm long, 3.5-5.5 cm broad, the margins denticulate; petiole to 1.5-3 cm long
• Tepals smaller outside and gradually larger inward, light orange to orange-red in stamniate flowers, green yellowish to yellow-orange in pistillate flowers; androecium subglobose, pink, stamens ca. 30, nearly sessile; gynoecium green.
• Fruiting carpels ca. 30 per torus, these subglobose, dark red, ovoid, ca. 6 mm long; seeds 2, compressed, ovoid-reniform, 3-4 mm long, the testa rugulate.

分布

• 台灣 : mainly distributed at medium and high altitudes (600-2,400 m).

引證標本

ILAN: near Nanshan Chen 204. TAOYUAN: Fuhsing, Peng 11046. HSINCHU: Chienshih, Wang 1335. TAICHUNG: Hoping, Huang et al. 10. NANTOU: between Shuili and Tatachia, Peng 9506. KAOHSIUNG: Taoyuan, Wang 1060. HUALIEN: Taroko National Park, Peng 13051.

參考文獻

• LI, HUI-LIN & CHAW, SHU-MIAW, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 425. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)