生活型

shrub

形態特徵

• Shrub.
• Leaves often crowed at apex of branches, about 30 cm long, leaflets 3-6-pairs, ovate, variable in size, 4.5-6 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, spinose-acuminute at apex, more or less cordate at base, with 3-6 pairs of margins teeth, often falcate, sessile, terminal leaflet larger, obovate, petiolulate, cuneate at base. Racemes few- to 10, fasciculate, 10-20 cm long, drooping, the rachis more or less fleshy;
• Flowers yellow; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 mm long, acuminate, 2-4 mm wide; pedicels 6-7 mm long; sepals 6, ovate, 2.5-7 mm long, 2.5-4 mm wide, the inner ones larger; petals similar to the sepals, but smaller; stamens 6; ovules 4 or 5.
• Berry ovoid, ca. 8 mm long and 4 mm across, dark purple, more or less pruinose with sessile stigma.

分布

• 台灣 : in thickets from 500 to 2,000 m.
• 世界 : South China and Japan (only in cultivation).

引證標本

TAIPEI: Tikushizan, Shimada s. n. 1915 (Type of M. Tikushiensis Hayata, TI!); Datungshan, Liao 154; Chutzuhu, Lu 24983. NANTOU: Yuanfeng, Chen 470. PINGTUNG: Peitawushan, Chen 599.

參考文獻

• LU, SHENG-YOU and YANG, YUEN-PO, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 2: 581. 1996.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)