生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Deciduous shrubs .
• Leaves 8-10-fascicled, chartaceous, obovate oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, apex rounded-obtuse, spinulose-mucronulate, base long-attenuate, margins entire or minutely spinulose-dentate, teeth in the latter 6-, rarely 7 pairs, slender, appressed-ascending spinose ca. 1 mm long, both surfaces somewhat concolorous, glabrous, sometimes slightly glaucous beneath, veins strongly reticulate and raised on both surfaces.
• Flowers 3-6-fascicled; pedicels 2.5-3 cm long, slender; outer sepals narrowly ovate, 3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, inner sepals 6 cm long, 3 cm wide; petals broadly elliptic, 5-6 mm long, 3-3.5 cm wide, apex rounded, concave; ovules 4-9.
• Fruit red, suborbicular, ca. 1 cm long, 0.7 cm across, stigma sessile.

分布

• 台灣 : Above 3,000 m on the high peaks of the central ranges.

引證標本

TAICHUNG: Hsuehshan, Yang s. n. NANTOU: Hohuanshan, Lu 24824. CHIAYI: Yushan, Kawakami & Mori 2287 (Type, TI!), Hsu 6183, Lu s. n.

參考文獻

• LU, SHENG-YOU and YANG, YUEN-PO, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 579. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)