生活型

tree

形態特徵

• Medium-sized to large Evergreen trees; bark smooth, dark brown.
• Leaves alternate, chartaceous, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, 6-8 cm long, 2-3 cm broad, acuminate to caudate at apex, cuneate at base, margins revolute, glabrous above, pubescent, deep violet beneath when dry, pinnately veined, lateral veins 5-6 pairs, veinlets somewhat elevated beneath; petioles slightly pubescent, 8 mm long.
• Inflorescences cymose-panicles, terminal or axillary, densely pubescent; tepals 6, unequal, outer 3 ovate, 3 mm long, 1.2 mm broad, acute, inner 3 ovate-oblong, 4 mm long, 2.5 mm broad, obtuse, pubescent on both sides; fertile stamens 9, the anthers 4-celled, oblong, 1 mm long, 1st and 2nd whorles of stamens eglandular, 2.3 mm long, villous at base, 3rd whorl glandular, villous at base, 4th whorl staminodes, awned, 1.5 mm long; ovary ovoid, 1.2 mm long, style 2 mm long, stigma capitate.
• Fruit compressed-globose, 1.2 cm across with persistent reflexed enlarged tepals.

分布

• 台灣 : in broad-leaved forests from low to medium altitudes in the central to southern parts of Taiwan, such as at Chitou, Shenping and Suangliou.

引證標本

KAOHSIUNG: Shenping, Liukuei, Lu s. n. PINGTUNG: Suangliou, Fongkang, Hengchun, Liao 10397.

參考文獻

• LlAO, JIH CHING, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 479. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)