生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Large Evergreen shrubs; branchlets slender, brown-tomentose.
• Leaves alternate, coriaceous, ovate, obovate to oblong, 3-6 cm long, 2-3.5 cm broad, acute at apex, acute, obtuse to rounded at base, deep brown, lustrous and glabrous above, light brown, somewhat glaucous beneath when dry, pubescent along midrib and veins, midrib and 4-5 pair lateral veins slightly elevated on both surfaces; petioles ca. 1.2 cm long, brown-tomentose.
• Inflorescences umbellate-clusters, 5-6-flowered, axillary, with 3 or 4 bracts in male and female flowers; staminate flowers with perianth slightly pubescent at base outside; tepals 6, broadly ovate, 2 mm long, 1.6 mm broad, obtuse at apex; fertile stamens 9, filiform, anthers 2-celled, introrse, ovoid, 1 mm long, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, 3rd whorl with 2 sessile glands; reduced ovary obovoid, small, 0.9 mm long; pedicels 1.2 cm long; pistillate flowers with per-ianth campanulate; tepals broadly ovate, obtuse, ca. 1.5 mm long; staminodia 9, 3rd whorl of stamens glandular, filiform; ovary long ovoid; pedicels pubescent, 1-3 mm long.
• Berry globose to ellipsoid, reddish-scarlet at maturity, glabrous;

物候

flowering December to March; maturing October to November.

分布

• 台灣 : growing in broad-leaved forests in lowlands throughout the island.

引證標本

ILAN: Mt. Tayuan, Rotung, Liao. s. n. PINGTUNG: Tasulin, Fuangliao, Liao 11197; The 47 compartment, Tawu, Liao 11448.

引用文獻

• LlAO, JIH CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 458. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit., 台灣植物誌第二版)